Previous edition: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New genres : inventing African popular culture -- Africans photog raphed, African photographers -- Transforming the workshop -- Pat rons and mediators -- Art and commodity -- The African artist : s hifting identities in the Postcolonial world -- The idea of a nation al culture : decolonizing African art -- Migration and displacement -- The global contemporary art world and Africa.

"Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by any particular style, technique or theme, but by a br icolage-like attitude towards art-making, incorporating and building up on the structures from which older, precolonial and colonial genres wer e made. In this revised and updated edition of Contemporary African Art , Sidney Littlefield Kasfir examines the major themes, developments and accomplishments in African art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Organiz ed thematically, the book includes new chapters on the history of Afric an photography and the growth of the global art market, alongside signi ficant discussions of patronage and mediation, artistic training and na tional and diaspora identities."--Provided by publisher.