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

Author: Elizabeth Harney
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series: Objects/histories.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An examination of visual art in post-independence Senegal. It explores the complex interplay of cultural nationalism, negotiations of postcolonial identity, and an emergent artistic modernism.  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Harney, Elizabeth.
In Senghor's shadow.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2004
(OCoLC)653483791
Named Person: Léopold Sédar Senghor; Léopold Sédar Senghor; Léopold Sédar Senghor
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth Harney
ISBN: 0822333856 9780822333852 0822333953 9780822333951
OCLC Number: 55008299
Description: xxv, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Series Title: Objects/histories.
Responsibility: Elizabeth Harney.
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