Architecture Landmarks & Monuments
African Art, Interviews, Narratives
Bodies of Knowledge at Work
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2013
- Category
- Landmarks & Monuments, African
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780253006912
- Publish Date
- May 2013
- List Price
- $37.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780253006875
- Publish Date
- May 2013
- List Price
- $105.00
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Description
Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to question previous uses of interview and provoke alternative understandings of art.
About the authors
Patrick McNaughton's profile page
Joseph F. Jordan's profile page
Akinbode Akinbiyi's profile page
Andrea E. Frohne's profile page
Mary Jo Arnoldi's profile page
Contributor Notes
Joanna Grabski is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Denison University.
Carol Magee is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture.
Editorial Reviews
African Art, Interviews, Narratives provides scholars the chance to reexamine the role of the interviewer, interlocutor, and art historian when making printed text from recorded interviews.
Oral History Review
African Art, Interviews, Narratives . . . is a highly reflective collection of essays about the work of constructing art history out of interviews. Designed to unsettle and open up the relationship between interviews and scholarship, it speaks to the work of anthropology by aiming to better understand the nature of the interview process itself, how we produce and convey meanings from interviews and related documents. While it will be of particular interest to anthropologists working as museum curators, it will be equally useful to any professional whose craft largely depends upon interviews.
Leonardo Reviews
In these essays, one hears the narratives and learns the perspectives of a diverse group of people that greatly illuminate both meaning and intent.
African Studies Review
