Part of Saffron Books African Art and Society Series [ISSN 1740-3111 | Series Editors John Picton, Sajid Rizvi, www.saffronbooks.com], documents and updates an extraordinary symposium of visual art specialists from twenty countries, mostly scholar-practitioners, who debated about art, African art and art education in Africa at the peak of the africa95 season in London. The collected texts indicate a variety of conditions which, in turn, generate contingent ways of becoming and being a contemporary artist. These comparative configurations of artistic production and practice move the discourse beyond the rhetoric – and, indeed, prejudice – that persists in obscuring the actualities and accomplishments of ‘African art’. Both visionary and practical approaches to education in and through art are dealt with.
Some thirty texts in the book include (i) Historical and institutional backgrounds for specialised art education; (ii) Case studies of specific situations. All rights reserved © EAP.
