Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art

by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi

An important investigation of the complicated relationship between canonical African art and the practices of contemporary African artists

Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformulating the continent's artistic traditions to respond...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300246870
• ISBN13: 9780300246872
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Cleveland Museum of Art
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.3" x 12.3"