CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART

The twentieth century has been a period of major disruption for traditional institutions in Africa. But even as old forms of art pat ronage were being suppressed, new avenues of artistic expression opened up. Postcolonial art in Africa has built seamlessly upon alr eady existing structures in which precolonial and colonial genres of African art were made. It is in this sense, and in the habits a nd attitudes of artists towards making art, rather than in any adherence to a particular style, medium, technique, or thematic range , that t...[Read more]