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The New York Public L i b r a r y presents An Art Book Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:00 p.m. Margaret Liebman Berger Forum Room 227 (2 nd Floor) Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue 5 th Avenue and 42nd Street New York , NY 10018 212-340-0871 www.nypl.org (directions) Room 227 opens to public at 5:30 p.m. All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation. Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu’s Contemporary African Art Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa , but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of the continent since the past 30 years. Its frame of analysis is absorbed with historical transitions: from the end of the postcolonial utopias of the sixties during the 1980s to the geopolitical, economic, technological, and cultural shifts incited by globalization. This book is both narrower in focus in the periods it reflects on, and specific in the ground it covers. It begins by addressing the tumultuous landscape of contemporary Africa , examining landmarks and narratives, exploring divergent systems of representation, and interrogating the ways artists have responded to change and have incorporated new aesthetic principles and artistic concepts, images and imaginaries to deal with such changes. Organized in chronological order, the book covers all major artistic mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, installation, drawing, collage. It also covers aesthetic forms and genres, from conceptual to formalist, abstract to figurative practices. Moving between discursive and theoretical registers, the principal questions the book analyzes are: what and when is contemporary African art? Who might be included in the framing of such a conceptual identity? It also addresses the question of globalization and contemporary African art. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the end of the program. Okwui Enwezor , a leading curator and scholar of contemporary art, is the Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute, and founding publisher and editor of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art . Chika Okeke-Agulu is Assistant Professor of Art and Archeology and African American Studies at Princeton University , and editor of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. The program series An Art Book is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The events showcase book presentations by world renowned artists, critics, historians, curators and writers. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]