Abstract
In this article, Lisa Wainwright dates the direct incorporation of traditional African objects and three dimensional facsimiles into works of art by African American artists to the 1980s. Examining the work of Fred Wilson, David Hammons, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Nari Ward, Cauleen Smith and Theaster Gates, she discusses their respective approaches to liberating the African object from European Modernism’s historic hold.
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