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Delinda Collier - Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art - 9780816694440 - V9780816694440
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Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art

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Description for Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; AC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 210 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.

Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola. These reproductions were adapted in postindependence Angolan nationalist art and post–civil war contemporary art. As Delinda Collier recounts, the pictorial narrative foregrounds the complex relationships between content, distribution, and politicization. The result is a nuanced look at the practices of art entangled in political economies as much as in issues of aesthetics.

After historicizing the ... Read more

If, as Collier contends, “Africa troubles media,” this book troubles facile theories and romantic constructions of “analog Africa,” boundaries between art and cybernetics, and the firewall between the colonial and the postcolonial.


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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816694440
SKU
V9780816694440
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About Delinda Collier
Delinda Collier is associate professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Reviews for Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art
"Repainting the Walls of Lunda reimagines how we write histories of post-colonial Africa, encouraging us to pay close attention to the material legacies of coloniality and modernization processes, and offering us a much-needed look at the complex entanglements of media with colonial/postcolonial and cold war narratives."—Elizabeth Harney, University of Toronto "Collier's book is of particular interest to art historians, historians, ... Read more

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