Critical Interventions

A new forum for advanced research and writing on global African arts that investigates African and African Diaspora identities in the age of globalization. As an arena for rethinking African art history and interrogating the value of African art/cultural knowledge in the global economy and how that knowledge is transmitted, Critical Interventions is particularly interested in dissecting how such value is created, and the politics of the commodification of African artworks and of their reception. The journal inaugurates a formal discourse on the aesthetics, politics and economics of African cultural patrimony as it affects African ownership of the intellectual property rights of its indigenous systems of knowledge and cultural practices. Critical Interventions is the first journal to focus on a new African art history that speaks to 21st Century issues. Its inaugural edition, it will be launched at the 2007 Mbanefo Foundation Conference (Interrogating African Modernity: Art, Cultural Politics and Global Identities, University of California Santa Barbara, May 4-5, 2007. www.mbanefofoundation.org/conference.htm)

Inside The Journal:

With more than 12 featured sections with submissions ranging from exposes on the history of African art to the current places where some of our greatest art is featured, Critical Interventions showcases the best in African art and visual culture.

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Submissions:

Critical Interventions welcomes submissions from qualified writers, artists, curators and others who wish to contribute to the journal. Submissions may focus on any area of modern and contemporary art and visual or material culture, including popular art, neotraditional forms, studio art, film, photography, architecture, and new media.

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The editorial staff and contributing authors have developed a unique journal that celebrates African art and visual culture and would like to share this journal with you. If you want to receive Critical Interventions via email please subscribe.

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Editorial Board:

The editorial board for Critical Interventions is a virtual whos who in the African Art world. Filled with experts from a wide variety of fields, the editorial board will ensure a quality literary tool for all who seek such.

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About The Journal

Inside The Journal

Submissions

Editorial Board

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie and John Peffer, - Is African Art History?

Aachron Division Spotlight

arts management