Delinda Collier

Media Primitivism

Technological Art in Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Delinda Collier finds alternative concepts of mediation in African art by closely engaging with electricity-based works since 1944.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781478008835
• ISBN-10: 1478008830
• Artikelnr.: 58567055

Autorenporträt

Delinda Collier

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. African Art History and the Medium Concept  1
1. Film as Light, Film as Indigenous  31
2. Electronic Sound as Trance ad Resonance  61
3. The Song as Private Property  93
4. Artificial Blackness, or Extraction as Abstraction  119
5. "The Earth and the Substratum Are Not Enough"  153
6. The Seed and the Field  183
Afterword  211
Notes  215
Bibliography  237
Index