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In Senghor's shadow : art, politics, and the avant-garde in Senegal, 1960-1995 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harney, Elizabeth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Objects/histories.
Subjects:
Modernism (Art) > Senegal > Dakar.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Senegal > Dakar > History > 20th century.
Art and state > Senegal.
Negritude (Literary movement) > Senegal > Influence.
Senghor, Léopold Sédar, > 1906-2001 > Influence.
Table of Contents:
  • Rhythm as the architecture of being: reflections on "un âme nègre"
  • The Ecole de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in paint and textile
  • Laboratories of avant-gardism
  • After the avant-garde
  • Passport to the global art world.