{"id":56577,"date":"2024-09-01T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T11:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=56577"},"modified":"2024-09-01T20:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T19:41:03","slug":"artmargins-vol-13-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=56577","title":{"rendered":"ARTMargins Vol. 13.1 – Socialism In Contemporary African Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ARTMargins Vol. 13.1 ; Socialism In Contemporary African Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This introductory essay and accompanying special issue of ARTMargins explore the role of African socialisms in contemporary art. Artists looking at Africa\u2019s radical history face the challenge of responding to a generalized amnesia about the continent\u2019s protagonism on intellectual and political radicalism after 1945. Working with under-researched themes, scarce historical records, and apprehensive oral sources, these artists are often tasked to amplify forgotten pasts while simultaneously critiquing the political contingency of historical investigation in global contemporary art. Global contemporary art\u2014largely shaped by the neoliberal transition that followed the very histories explored by these artists\u2014is often shown in its limitation to engage with socialist history critically. Through the authors\u2019 analyses, many artworks nuance discussion of the erasures, fixed narratives, and nostalgia for Africa\u2019s socialist past. Looking to this past, artists attempt to reorganize contemporaneity and its typical disregard for history beyond romanticization. Talho (2014), a work by Mozambican photographer Filipe Branquinho, is analyzed as a case study raising central questions on contemporary artists\u2019 engagement with Africa\u2019s socialist past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by \u00c1lvaro Lu\u00eds Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction
Socialism in Contemporary African Art: Butchering the End of Time
\u00c1lvaro Lu\u00eds Lima<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles
\u201cWe Need a Lighthouse Philosopher\u201d: Filipa C\u00e9sar and Louis Henderson’s Sunstone (2018) and the Portuguese Genealogy of Lens-Based Media
Delinda Collier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make Me a Picture of the Future: Massinissa Selmani’s 1000 Socialist Villages (2015)
Natasha Marie Llorens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mythography of Socialism in Contemporary Angolan Art
Nadine Siegert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Politics and Aesthetics of Liberation: Revolution and Its Aftermath in Contemporary Artistic Practice from and about Lusophone Africa
Ana Balona de Oliveira<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract States: Modernism in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey
Gemma Sharpe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist Project
As the Nile Flows or the Camel Walks
Dawit L. Petros, Black Athena Collective<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Document
Introduction to \u201cCultural Offensive of the Working Classes\u201d
Polly Savage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes
Tempo, Polly Savage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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