Okediji, Moyosore B.

Western frontiers of African art / Moyo Okediji. - Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2011. - x, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Triangular landscape: renaming the boundaries -- Homoerotic African art: genital rites, blood, and dark secrets -- Transgressive pictures: feminism, pathology, and poverty -- Gendered triangulation: anger, rage , and dislocation -- Hybrid body: white nude, Black myth -- Words and i mages: the meaning of meaninglessness -- Semioptic equations: the cross roads of arrowhead modernity -- Twin visions: hybrid colon and semicolo n -- Triangulated worlds: Western modernity, African postcoloniality -- Semiographic hybridity: writing with images.

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Art, African --Western influences.----20th century --
Art, American --African influences.----20th century --
Art, European --African influences.----20th century --

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