ENVIRONMENT AND OBJECT

The definition of a new African artist is as broad and diverse as the continent itself/ and the stories these artists tell are at on ce uplifting and devastating, as are their nations histories. This book focuses on the impact of the environment on contemporary Af rican life and the use of found objects and appropriated materials in current African art. Artists from the oil-rich Niger Delta cre ate images of the regions ecological destruction, impoverishment, and despair. Works from the Congo and South Africa depict abandon ed mines a...[Read more]