Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewConcise and insightful, Joanna Grabski's Art World City should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in contemporary art on the continent of Africa, its politics, its display, its economics, and in methods of how to
understand and write about it in manner that treats the art of Dakar with the autonomy and agency it clearly expresses.
* African Arts *
Art World City is a beautiful book. The photographs, most of which are by the author, are stunning.
* College Art Association Reviews *
Art World City is a valuable addition to the anthropology of cities and of art worlds. It stretches and revises the notion of art world to include multiple scales, and illustrates how the city enables simultaneous engagement for artists with local, national, Pan-African, and global discourses and platforms.
* City & Society *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction. Dakar's Art World City
1. Making the City's Scene: Visibility, Exhibition Culture, and Mediatization
2. Mapping the Dak'Art Biennale in Dakar
3. A Place From Which to Speak: Artists' Studios as Infrastructure of Opportunity
4. From Street to Studio: Sourcing the Materials for Art from Urban Life
5. Picturing the City
6. Market Space and Urban Space: The Business of Selling Art in the City
Epilogue. Reflections on Dakar's Art World City: Infrastructures, Vision-Oriented Subjectivities, and Implications
Notes
Bibliography
Index
