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Author: Okwui Enwezor ,
Terry Smith
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.445kg
ISBN: 9781478031567
ISBN 10: 1478031565
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 05 August 2025
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Format: Paperback
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“Okwui Enwezor has been among the most stimulating and politically engaged curators in the last hundred years! He always had a finger on the pulse of practicing artists and critical theory, as evidenced in these writings. This informed his majestic curatorial approach for making the most important, ground-breaking exhibitions in the twenty-first century, from Documenta to Venice to Sharjah. These essays constitute one of the most important documents and legacies for understanding contemporary art and curatorial practice today.” - Isaac Julien “Okwui Enwezor was one of a kind in every respect. In a mere twenty-five years, he single-handedly transformed the culture of contemporary art by fully integrating African and African diaspora artists into a global understanding of modern and contemporary practice. His hugely influential writings were vital to his overall project of recasting the entire discourse on twentieth- and twenty-first-century African and Afro-Diaspora art. This volume’s depth and range of selections represents the sheer comprehensiveness of Enwezor’s achievement and will extend his work’s ongoing impact.” - Kobena Mercer, author of (Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s)
“Okwui Enwezor was one of a kind in every respect. In a mere twenty-five years, he single-handedly transformed the culture of contemporary art by fully integrating African and African Diaspora artists into a global understanding of modern and contemporary practice. His hugely influential writings were vital to his overall project of recasting the entire discourse on twentieth- and twenty-first-century African and Afro-Diaspora art. This volume’s depth and range of selections represents the sheer comprehensiveness of Enwezor’s achievement and will extend his work’s ongoing impact.” -- Kobena Mercer, author of * Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s *
“Okwui Enwezor has been among the most stimulating and politically engaged curators in the last hundred years! He always had a finger on the pulse of practicing artists and critical theory, as evidenced in these writings. This informed his majestic curatorial approach for making the most important, ground-breaking exhibitions in the twenty-first century, from Documenta to Venice to Sharjah. These essays constitute one of the most important documents and legacies for understanding contemporary art and curatorial practice today.” - Isaac Julien “Okwui Enwezor was one of a kind in every respect. In a mere twenty-five years, he single-handedly transformed the culture of contemporary art by fully integrating African and African diaspora artists into a global understanding of modern and contemporary practice. His hugely influential writings were vital to his overall project of recasting the entire discourse on twentieth- and twenty-first-century African and Afro-Diaspora art. This volume’s depth and range of selections represents the sheer comprehensiveness of Enwezor’s achievement and will extend his work’s ongoing impact.” - Kobena Mercer, author of Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s
Author Information
Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and coauthor of numerous books and exhibition catalogs. Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor at Large, The Africa Institute, Global Studies University, Sharjah.
