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Transgressing Borders, Shaping an Art History

Transgressing Borders, Shaping an Art History SUNANDA K. SANYAL Rose Kirumira and Makerere's Legacy The Intruder HE ACADEMICALL Y TRAINED AFRICAN ARTIST is currently among the T most annoying pebbles in the art historian's shoes. It was not until decades after Europe had learned to recognize aesthetic values in objects from Africa early in the twentieth century that the academic discipline of art history opened its doors to African art. However, as the elite family continued to question its kinship with this stranger who seemed to have stronger ties with anthropology than with history, the newcomer initially remained a pariah in the house. It had to share the title 'Primitive Art' with other aliens of its kind for years, until eventually it managed to acquire a niche - albtoit a peripheral one - and a rubric of its OWll. But then the patriarchs of the lineage became uneasy once more as this marginal entity began to show signs of pregnancy, and their discomfort exacerbated when one off­ spring, refusing to remain confined in its mother's nook, audaciously demanded its share of the commodious rooms at the centre of the house. Let us take a doser look at this state of commotion. Douglas Crimp makes an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Matatu Brill

Transgressing Borders, Shaping an Art History

Sanyal, Sunanda K.
Matatu , Volume 25 (1): 27 – Dec 7, 2002
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SUNANDA K. SANYAL Rose Kirumira and Makerere's Legacy The Intruder HE ACADEMICALL Y TRAINED AFRICAN ARTIST is currently among the T most annoying pebbles in the art historian's shoes. It was not until decades after Europe had learned to recognize aesthetic values in objects from Africa early in the twentieth century that the academic discipline of art history opened its doors to African art. However, as the elite family continued to question its kinship with this stranger who seemed to have stronger ties with anthropology than with history, the newcomer initially remained a pariah in the house. It had to share the title 'Primitive Art' with other aliens of its kind for years, until eventually it managed to acquire a niche - albtoit a peripheral one - and a rubric of its OWll. But then the patriarchs of the lineage became uneasy once more as this marginal entity began to show signs of pregnancy, and their discomfort exacerbated when one off­ spring, refusing to remain confined in its mother's nook, audaciously demanded its share of the commodious rooms at the centre of the house. Let us take a doser look at this state of commotion. Douglas Crimp makes an

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