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Contemporary African Art

A Multilayered History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Abdou Sylla
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It is always pretentious to treat African art as though a unitary vision of art as it is currently practiced in Africa were possible. This point of view in fact ignores or neglects African diversity: the individual plastic art experiments of African artists. These diversities, tied to the varied contexts and rapid changes that are steadily taking place everywhere, no longer permit such claims.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 46 , Issue 184 , December 1998 , pp. 51 - 70
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Copyright © 1998 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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