Insistent presence : contemporary African art from the Chazen collection / Margaret Nagawa, guest curator ; editor, Kirstin Pires.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Straus, Scott, 1970- interviewee.

Guyer, Sara Emilie, interviewee.

Alcauskas, Katherine D., curator, writer of introduction, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, African--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art--Wisconsin--Madison--Exhibitions.

Chazen Museum of Art--Exhibitions.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

ii, 123 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Contemporary African art from the Chazen collection

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Thames & Hudson, Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"The definitive publication commemorating the Chazen Museum of Art's groundbreaking new collection of contemporary African art and its accompanying exhibition. Drawing on curator Okwui Enwezor and art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu's observation of an "insistent presence of the human figure in the work of contemporary African artists," Insistent Presence features writing by guest curator Margaret Nagawa that extends existing scholarship on African art. Nagawa's work explores how artists of today continue to leverage the image of the African body to negotiate issues of political and social power, identity, and belonging. With notions of the presence and absence of the human body as its organizing principle, this publication features forty-five works of sculpture, painting, ceramics, printmaking, and photography by twenty-four artists in three sections: "The Body in Society" explores identity in relation to others; "The Artist Is Present" portrays the body of the artist as a performer sharing their personal histories through theatrical performances, photography, and sculpture; and "The Absent Body" invokes only a mental image of the body through the depiction of accessories and accoutrements. Each section in Insistent Presence highlights twenty-first-century ways of being in the world and invites us to reflect on ourselves, our relationships, and the worlds we inhabit." -- Amazon.

Contents:

Insistent presence: the human body in contemporary African art / Margaret Nagawa

The body in society / Souad Abdelrasoul [and 9 others]

The artist is present / Lebohang Kganye, Nana Yaw Oduro, Collin Sekajugo, Mary Sibande

The absent body / Ajarb Bernard Ategwa [and 9 others]

A conversation with Scott Straus and Sara Guyer / Katherine Alcauskas, chief curator

The artists.

Notes:

"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Insistent presence: contemporary African art from the Chazen collection, held at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin--Madison from September 5 to December 30, 2023."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 123).

Contains:

Container of: Nagawa, Margaret. Insistence presence.

ISBN:

9780500027905

0500027900

OCLC:

1407213402