Media Primitivism - Technological Art in Africa

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Delinda Collier is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art.

Product details

• Authors: Delinda Collier
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781478008835
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0883-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Visual Arts of Africa and Its; The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science