Facing Toward the Future: How New Categories May Emerge

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May 03 2021 Facing Toward the Future: How New Categories May Emerge Mbongiseni Buthelezi Mbongiseni Buthelezi Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Executive Director, Public Affairs Research Institute, Johannesburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mbongiseni Buthelezi Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Executive Director, Public Affairs Research Institute, Johannesburg Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 © 2021 by the Regents of the University of California2021Regents of the University of California African Arts (2021) 54 (2): 7–8. https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00578 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Search Site Citation Mbongiseni Buthelezi; Facing Toward the Future: How New Categories May Emerge. African Arts 2021; 54 (2): 7–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00578 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsAfrican Arts Search Advanced Search Gagliardi and Biro accurately recognize language as an important site of change in the presentation and discussion of African arts with a historical bent. Toward the end of the essay, they make the point that, “Once we recognize that our determinations of style reflect our evaluations of form, then we must also revise our language to signal to our audiences that the style of a particular object may or may not reflect anything about who made it, for whom, or why” (2019: 4). This is an important point to emphasize, i.e., that the work of signaling, or even addressing more strongly than merely signaling, to audiences that the naming conventions used by art markets and museum displays carry with them histories of epistemic violence. The work of questioning and undoing these... © 2021 by the Regents of the University of California2021Regents of the University of California You do not currently have access to this content.