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Media Primitivism : Technological Art in Africa /

In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collier, Delinda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2020]
Colección:The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas : 43
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. African Art History and the Medium Concept
  • ONE. Film as Light, Film as Indigenous
  • TWO. Electronic Sound as Trance and Resonance
  • THREE. The Song as Private Property
  • FOUR. Artificial Blackness, or Extraction as Abstraction
  • FIVE. "The Earth and the Substratum Are Not Enough"
  • SIX. The Seed and the Field
  • AFTERWORD
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index