Is there such a Thing as “African Art”?

Abstract

Are we witnessing an attack of fleeting guilty conscience, or a harbinger of readjustment? African art, of the living variety, is currently attracting an attention in the West which has hitherto been refused it. The surest clue is the organization in Dusseldorf and London, then in Paris, at the Pompidou Centre, of the exhibition Africa Remix, which is scheduled to wind up its travelling show in Tokyo, and the publication of a weighty catalogue. In its French version, this latter differs from ...