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Joanna Grabski is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Denison University.
Carol Magee is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of
Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Work of Interviews
Carol Magee and Joanna Grabski
1. Talking to People about Art
Patrick McNaughton
2. Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence
Joanna Grabski
3. Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar's Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance
Joseph Jordan
4. Photography, Narrative Interventions, and (Cross) Cultural Representations
Carol Magee
5. Narrating the Artist: Seyni Camara and the Multiple Constructions of the Artistic Persona
Silvia Forni
6. Interview¿Akinbode Akinbiyi
Akinbode Akinbiyi
7. Inter-Weaving Narratives of Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel's Heroic Women
Kim Miller
8. Politics of Narrative at the African Burial Ground in NYC: The Final Monument
Andrea E. Frohne
9. Who Owns the Past: Constructing an Art History of a Malian Masquerade
Mary Jo Arnoldi
10. Framing Practices: Artists' Voices and the Power of Self-Representation
Christine Mullen Kreamer
11. Undisciplined Knowledge
Allan deSouza and Allyson Purpura
Appendix: Interlocutors
Contributors
Index
About the author
Joanna Grabski is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Denison University.
Carol Magee is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of
Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture.
Summary
A compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning
