254 Pages
23 Color & 60 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Focusing on a distinct network of diasporic artists and critics in the 1940s and the 1960s, this book explores how African-descended mid-century artists not only appropriated but intervened into raced aesthetic concepts and colonial infrastructures to argue their resonances in the global arts world.
The book presents a novel engagement with the underexposed modern, late colonial-to-decolonized... Read more
Chapter 1 Cauri’s Club
Chapter 2 Impossible Contact
Chapter 3 Art Noir
Chapter 4 Salon Confrontation
Chapter 5 Parallel Exposure Art in and out of Africa in the information age
Epilogue
Biography
Daniel Horn is Assistant professor at the Institute of Art History-Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
