Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art

Author:   Delinda Collier
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816694488


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   29 January 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Chronicling thepublication and dissemination of the anthropology book Paredes Pintadas daLunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), Delinda Collier analyzes two-dimensional imagesof the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola and their subsequent formats, frompostindependent canvas paintings to Internet images. Collier argues that thelogic of reproductive media envelops the past: each mediation adds anotherlayer of context and content.

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Author:   Delinda Collier
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780816694488


ISBN 10:   0816694486
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   29 January 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Introduction 1. Diamang as Apparatus: The Production of Painted Walls of Lunda in 1953 2. The Myth of Analog Africa: The Transition to Information Colonialism 3. Rebouco: Postindependence Art and Angolan Socialism 4. “Rescue and Visibility”: The Digitization of Painted Walls of Lunda and Postwar Angolan Art Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Repainting the Walls of Lunda reimagines how we write histories of post-colonial Africa, encouraging us to pay close attention to the material legacies of coloniality and modernization processes, and offering us a much-needed look at the complex entanglements of media with colonial/postcolonial and cold war narratives. Elizabeth Harney, University of Toronto


Collier's book is of particular interest to art historians, historians, media scholars, and cultural theorists for its conceptual framing, applied methodological approaches, and interpretative analysis. Collier offers new conceptual and methodological strategies for situating contemporary African art within longer histories of colonization and decolonization. --H-Net Reviews


Collier's book is of particular interest to art historians, historians, media scholars, and cultural theorists for its conceptual framing, applied methodological approaches, and interpretative analysis. Collier offers new conceptual and methodological strategies for situating contemporary African art within longer histories of colonization and decolonization. --H-Net Reviews In addition to telling a fascinating story, Collier's book will no doubt furnish scholars from a variety of areas with substantial food for thought, if not concrete models for approaching their own research. --An�lise Social A unique insight into the limits of postcolonial escape from colonial structures of inequality and appropriations. --Journal of Asian and African Studies Collier debunks the developmental model that underpins media theory and modernist teleologies, habitually framing ideas of the medium along a narrative of innovation and obsolescence that is driven by technology and markets. --Oxford Art Journal Repainting the Walls of Lunda reimagines how we write histories of post-colonial Africa, encouraging us to pay close attention to the material legacies of coloniality and modernization processes, and offering us a much-needed look at the complex entanglements of media with colonial/postcolonial and cold war narratives. --Elizabeth Harney, University of Toronto Repainting the Walls of Lunda reimagines how we write histories of post-colonial Africa, encouraging us to pay close attention to the material legacies of coloniality and modernization processes, and offering us a much-needed look at the complex entanglements of media with colonial/postcolonial and cold war narratives. Elizabeth Harney, University of Toronto


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Delinda Collier is associate professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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