Media Primitivism : Technological Art in Africa

In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge...

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Autor principal: Delinda Collier
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Publicado: Duke University Press Books 2020
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