In Senghor's Shadow
Publisher: Duke University Press
Over the last three decades the study of modern and contemporary African art has moved inexorably into the mainstream of art history where it rightfully belongs. Elizabeth Harney's scintillating study of modernism, modernity, the avant-garde, and the African imagination not only contributes to but enlarges the discursive and historiographic borders of the 'new art history.' Her detailed and beautifully written work provides a guiding insight into the centrality of Negritude in any history of modernism. Thi