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Author:   Sarah Nuttall
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   1.102kg
ISBN:  

9780822339182

ISBN 10:   0822339188
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   08 January 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking Beauty / Sarah Nuttall 6 Picasso, Africa and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikanki 30 Variations on the Beautiful in Congolese Worlds of Sound / Achille Mbembe 94 Two Thoughts of Drawing Beauty / William Kentridge 94 The Place of Beauty: Reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda / Rita Barnard 102 Quille Liberte: Art, Beauty and the Grammars of Resistance in Doula / Dominique Malaquais 122 Fresh Stories / Pippa Stein 164 The Love of the Body: Ousmane Sow and Beauty / Els van der Plas 188 Inheritance / Mark Gevisser 204 Let's Eat: Banquet Aesthetics and Social Epicurism / Celestin Monga 224 Let's Cook / Francois Verges 240 On the Slipperiness of Food / Cheryl-Ann Michael 256 Afro-Aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho 266 Yoruba Aesthetics and Trans-Atlantic Imaginaries / Kamari Maxine Clarke 290 Urban Imaging: The Friche Waiting to Happen / Rodney Place 316 Things Ugly: Ghanaian Popular Painting / Michelle Gilbert 340 Two Stories: Old Man with Garden at the Rear End of Time and The Fat Indian Girl / Mia Couto 372 Seeing the Familiar: Notes on Mia Couto / Isabel Hofmeyr 384 Notes 392 Index 409

Reviews

Finally, a book that explores African and African diasporic concepts of aesthetics with depth and theoretical sophistication. A marvelous collection of well thought-out and finely crafted essays by a diverse group of scholars, artists, and other practitioners on concepts of beauty and ugliness as they relate to artistic and aesthetic practices in Africa and its diaspora. An important reference book and a must read for the specialist and the general public alike. --Salah M. Hassan, Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

Beautiful/Ugly is a theoretically sophisticated, enormously insightful, and refreshing read of the politics of aesthetics and the aesthetics of politics, terrifically well illustrated and beautifully arranged and designed. -David Theo Goldberg, author of The Racial State Finally, a book that explores African and African diasporic concepts of aesthetics with depth and theoretical sophistication. A marvelous collection of well thought-out and finely crafted essays by a diverse group of scholars, artists, and other practitioners on concepts of beauty and ugliness as they relate to artistic and aesthetic practices in Africa and its diaspora. An important reference book and a must read for the specialist and the general public alike. -Salah M. Hassan, Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University Beautiful/Ugly is indeed another necessary exploration into the 'slippery' area of emerging international public spaces that are consumed, and understood, locally. For those looking for more about the density and proliferation of African aesthetics, art forms, and creative expression, this volume of essays will prove to be a satisfying foray into that familiar space. -- Solimar Otero, International Journal of African Historical Studies This is a beautiful book - that is, the production values given to the publication by Duke University Press and no doubt supported by the Prince Claus Fund are wonderful, beautiful even. The essays are supported by the kind of colour reproduction that it is rare to find even in the museum catalogues of blockbuster exhibitions. The essays are even colour highlighted, and there is an over all feel to the book of sumptuous quality... Beautiful/Ugly is both a timely book and a book of its time... [T]he book is a valuable resource, and one that if read carefully certainly enhances ways of thinking through some African relations to beauty in the world - savages notwithstanding. -- Will Lea, Leeds African Studies Bulletin Beautiful/Ugly is a remarkable and timely book. Its highly visual and evocative narrative will appeal to a wide audience of academics, students, and artists seeking to understand the place of African art and its aesthetics in a global perspective. -- Mattia Fumanti, African Affairs

Finally, a book that explores African and African diasporic concepts of aesthetics with depth and theoretical sophistication. A marvelous collection of well thought-out and finely crafted essays by a diverse group of scholars, artists, and other practitioners on concepts of beauty and ugliness as they relate to artistic and aesthetic practices in Africa and its diaspora. An important reference book and a must read for the specialist and the general public alike. -Salah M. Hassan, Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University Beautiful/Ugly is a theoretically sophisticated, enormously insightful, and refreshing read of the politics of aesthetics and the aesthetics of politics, terrifically well illustrated and beautifully arranged and designed. -David Theo Goldberg, author of The Racial State Beautiful/Ugly is indeed another necessary exploration into the 'slippery' area of emerging international public spaces that are consumed, and understood, locally. For those looking for more about the density and proliferation of African aesthetics, art forms, and creative expression, this volume of essays will prove to be a satisfying foray into that familiar space. -- Solimar Otero, International Journal of African Historical Studies This is a beautiful book - that is, the production values given to the publication by Duke University Press and no doubt supported by the Prince Claus Fund are wonderful, beautiful even. The essays are supported by the kind of colour reproduction that it is rare to find even in the museum catalogues of blockbuster exhibitions. The essays are even colour highlighted, and there is an over all feel to the book of sumptuous quality... Beautiful/Ugly is both a timely book and a book of its time... [T]he book is a valuable resource, and one that if read carefully certainly enhances ways of thinking through some African relations to beauty in the world - savages notwithstanding. -- Will Lea, Leeds African Studies Bulletin Beautiful/Ugly is a remarkable and timely book. Its highly visual and evocative narrative will appeal to a wide audience of academics, students, and artists seeking to understand the place of African art and its aesthetics in a global perspective. -- Mattia Fumanti, African Affairs

Author Information

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a coeditor of Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies; Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa; and Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature, and History in South Africa and Australia.

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