Journal Profile: Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture

Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture
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Electronic access: 2007 –

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“Critical Interventions focuses on the arts and visual cultures of global Africa, which encapsulates African and African Diaspora identities in the age of globalization. It provides a forum for investigating the value of African art/cultural knowledge in the global economy and its mediation protocols, reviewing in particular how this value is created via the politics of reception and commodification. The journal thus inaugurates a formal discourse on the aesthetics, politics, and economics of African cultural patrimony and African ownership of the intellectual property rights of its indigenous knowledge systems and forms of cultural practice. Through this focus it stakes out a ground on what promises to be the principal site of discursive engagement for the field of African art history in this century.” —from their website.

This title is an exciting addition to our collection because it helps provide entry into the discourse of non-Western art history and contemporary art. This journal also features contributions by PNCA faculty-member, Modou Dieng.

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