Exhibitions & EventsLecture/Gallery Talk
Lectures and Gallery Talks
Searching for the “African” in African Art Studies
Sunday, October 14, 2012
2:00 PM
Rowland Abiodun
John C. Newton Professor of History of Art and Black Studies
Amherst College, MA
Like “post-modernism” and “deconstructionism,” the field of global studies has generated many theories in which indigenous African perspectives have been glaringly absent. Abiodun critically examines the premise of some of these prevailing theories, reflecting on their relevance to African art scholarship.
Sponsored by Friends of African and African American Art