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Article: Teaching the contemporary: disjunctures and accommodations. (dialogue).(Brief Article)
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- African Arts
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Everyone who actively follows the fortunes of African art in either academic settings or the museum world knows that the boundaries of the field are being revised. Contemporary genres are occupying an ever larger space in our consciousness, thanks to the groundbreaking work mainly by African curators and critics over the last decade. The question is, how is this being translated into either pedagogy or museum practice by a generation of African art teachers and curators who are more familiar with masks and shrine sculpture than Triangle workshops and Biennales? To find out, we began with teaching and asked four well-known Africanists to comment on their own experience. ...