{"product_id":"media-primitivism-9781478009696","title":"Media Primitivism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDelinda Collier finds alternative concepts of mediation in African art by closely engaging with electricity-based works since 1944.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Delinda Collier's \u003ci\u003eMedia Primitivism\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable journey into the intellectual development of twentieth-century African art and how art objects themselves resist the categories accorded to them. Theoretically sophisticated and brilliantly argued, \u003ci\u003eMedia Primitivism\u003c\/i\u003e poses a serious challenge to those who like their African art suspended in a primordial past.” -- Steven Nelson, author of * From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMedia Primitivism\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that will resituate both media history and the historiography of African art. Delinda Collier convincingly argues that, from electronic music to world cinema, African technologies are not additions to electricity-based media but function as the very basis of them. The historiography is thrilling, the aesthetic analyses compelling, and the theoretical synthesis at times breathtaking.” -- Laura U. Marks, author of * Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Media Primitivism \u003c\/i\u003eis a nuanced and singular intellectual project that stands to make an impact across the fields of African art, media studies, and art history. . . . Its most exciting contribution is that it breathes new life into the theoretical possibilities proposed by African art itself.” -- Allison K. Young * African Arts *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMedia Primitivism \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling book that blends media theory, art history, and African art history in a masterful act of theoretical weaving on the part of its author. . . . Tracing deeper technological histories on the continent . . . proves that the question of Africa (as a place and idea) is not additive to media studies, but a foundational aspect of it.” -- Alexandra M. Thomas * Media-N *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. African Art History and the Medium Concept  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Film as Light, Film as Indigenous  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Electronic Sound as Trance ad Resonance  61\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Song as Private Property  93\u003cbr\u003e 4. Artificial Blackness, or Extraction as Abstraction  119\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"The Earth and the Substratum Are Not Enough\"  153\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Seed and the Field  183\u003cbr\u003e Afterword  211\u003cbr\u003e Notes  215\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  237\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408985727319,"sku":"9781478009696","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478009696.jpg?v=1730504973","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/media-primitivism-9781478009696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}