{"product_id":"african-art-interviews-narratives-bodies-of-knowledge-at-work-african-expressive-cultures-9780253006912","title":"African Art Interviews Narratives Bodies of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA  compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican Art, Interviews, Narratives . . . is a highly reflective collection of essays about the work of constructing art history out of interviews. Designed to unsettle and open up the relationship between interviews and scholarship, it speaks to the work of anthropology by aiming to better understand the nature of the interview process itself, how we produce and convey meanings from interviews and related documents.  While it will be of particular interest to anthropologists working as museum curators, it will be equally useful to any professional whose craft largely depends upon interviews.\u003c\/p\u003e * Leonardo Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these essays, one hears the narratives and learns the perspectives of a diverse group of people that greatly illuminate both meaning and intent.\u003c\/p\u003e * African Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican Art, Interviews, Narratives provides scholars the chance to reexamine the role of the interviewer, interlocutor, and art historian when making printed text from recorded interviews.\u003c\/p\u003e * Oral History Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Work of Interviews \u003cbr\u003eCarol Magee and Joanna Grabski \u003cbr\u003e1. Talking to People about Art \u003cbr\u003ePatrick McNaughton \u003cbr\u003e2. Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence \u003cbr\u003eJoanna Grabski \u003cbr\u003e3. Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar's Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Jordan \u003cbr\u003e4. Photography, Narrative Interventions, and (Cross) Cultural Representations \u003cbr\u003eCarol Magee \u003cbr\u003e5. Narrating the Artist: Seyni Camara and the Multiple Constructions of the Artistic Persona \u003cbr\u003eSilvia Forni \u003cbr\u003e6. Interview—Akinbode Akinbiyi \u003cbr\u003eAkinbode Akinbiyi \u003cbr\u003e7. Inter-Weaving Narratives of Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel's Heroic Women \u003cbr\u003eKim Miller \u003cbr\u003e8. Politics of Narrative at the African Burial Ground in NYC: The Final Monument\u003cbr\u003eAndrea E. Frohne \u003cbr\u003e9. Who Owns the Past: Constructing an Art History of a Malian Masquerade\u003cbr\u003eMary Jo Arnoldi \u003cbr\u003e10. Framing Practices: Artists' Voices and the Power of Self-Representation\u003cbr\u003eChristine Mullen Kreamer\u003cbr\u003e11. Undisciplined Knowledge\u003cbr\u003eAllan deSouza and Allyson Purpura\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Interlocutors\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400531878231,"sku":"9780253006912","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253006912.jpg?v=1730470910","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-art-interviews-narratives-bodies-of-knowledge-at-work-african-expressive-cultures-9780253006912","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}