... the intentional ways in which Africans shaped their own photographic representation in a medium whose history was as long and distinguished in Africa as in Europe. Enwezor’s 2001 exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 , was a revelatory journey through the long...

... Lots of people tell me that's what Neither Susan Vogel's film nor this Movements in Africa 1945-1994 they like about me review offer a thorough historical (Munich: Prestel, 2001), p. 176. On the screen, near the end...

... Enewzor's land• mark exhibition, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994. Ghada Amer, Sue Williamson, and Ibrahim El Salahi, three of the participating artists, were among the panelists. My remarks, which I am in part sharing with our readers, were by no means...

...; The Short Century: Independence Yinka Shonibare CBE is a British-Nigerian artist and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 1994, based in London. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002; and then, of course, Documenta11, Kassel, Germany, 2002, a project that completely transformed the trajectory of my career...

.... of Nigeria’s first auction house in Lagos in 2008, For example, while borrowing works for the followed by Cape Town’s Strauss and Company exhibition The Short Century: Independence and (which held its first contemporary art auction in Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945...

... conveyed in many of his exhibitions also marked the central issues that informed the images of SB15. In his most important work, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 1994, an exhibition that Kobena Mercer denotes as an intervention that singlehandedly thrust Africa back...

... principally on consumption. And now Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 (New York: with its global reach—in this broke and wretched Prestel, 2001). I'm partly revising Enwezor's coordinates...

...) "Zwelethu Mthethwa: 1945-1994 (Munich: Prestel, 2001), pp. 175-79. Artist's Statement, 1995": httpwww.southafrica.co.za/saar/mth. 7 Octavio Zaya, "Zwelethu Mthethwa: Styles and Desires...

... of this pioneering exhibition was Century and Documenta XI, Who Knows Tomorrow the rich visual history of independence and libera- affirmed German interest in contemporary African tion movements in Africa from 1945 to 1994, some art. While receptiveness to African art has long reviewers noted...

..., Mohammed Omer Khalil Etchings/Amir I. M. Nour Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994); and Okwui Enwezor, ed., The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa (1945–1994) (Munich: Prestel, 2001). 20 Amir Nour, correspondence...

...: 1945-1994 exhibition, Adeagbo devotes himself, for example, to The task of the contemporary artist as archivist is the task of the excavation of the phenomenon of Bavarian folklore. In Le thought. Thinking as a creative process stands at the beginning Socialisme Africaine...

...." Later that year, Enwezor's traveling exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 and Hassan...

..., 1995); Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor, Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999); The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 1994, ed. Okwui Enwezor (Munich: Prestel, 2001); and Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Ben...

.... Portraiture:' Okwui Enwezor, ed. The Short Century, Independence and 5 Ibid 74. For information on Latin American conceptualism, see Mari Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994:' Munich: Prcstel, 2001: Carmen Ramirez, cc Blueprint Circuits: Conceptual Art and Politics in 176-177. Latin America:' Waldo...

... in 18 Atta Kwami to Lydie Diakhate, e-mail April 14, 2008. Accra. '9 Okwui Enwezor, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994...

... In/Sight: African tious debates surrounding immigration and French Photographers, 1940 Present and the 2001 exhibi- history. In A Host of Possibilities: Okwui Enwezor s tion The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Exhibition Making as a Practice of Hospitality, she Movements in Africa, 1945 1994...

... with Earrings (1966), shot for twen magazine. March’s subject—the African American fashion model and actress Donyale Luna (1945–79)—is of great historical significance, not only because Luna was the first internationally acclaimed black fashion model, but also because she had an especially arresting, black...

... did find that in the GEL: My impression was it was started by Mark Dery in his early discussions of the AACM, they were quite concerned essay “Black to the Future” (1994), right? He wasn’t talking about the union. They saw the union as punitive, as hier- about music. At first they were thinking...

... in how Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994," at the Museum Villa to end the dialogue of Kara Walker's work and believe it is necessary Stuck in Munich. to show it at the Studio Museum. The work is shown in the main• stream and attacked by black people. I believe in the circular — In terms...

... and 253. representation in what Senghor would consider 9 Léopold Sédar Senghor, “Black Mask (To Pablo Picasso)” (1945), in Léopold Sédar Senghor: The Collected Poetry, trans. a “social” art. Inspired by local traditions...