Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar

by Joanna Grabski

Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city's resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how and why they produce and exhibit their work and how they make an art scene and transact with art world mediators such as curators, journalists, critics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253026059
• ISBN13: 9780253026057
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher