Publisher's Synopsis
"The definitive publication commemorating the Chazen Museum of Art's groundbreaking new collection of contemporary African art and its accompanying exhibition. Drawing on curator Okwui Enwezor and art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu's observation of an "insistent presence of the human figure in the work of contemporary African artists," Insistent Presence features writing by guest curator Margaret Nagawa that extends existing scholarship on African art. Nagawa's work explores how artists of today continue to leverage the image of the African body to negotiate issues of political and social power, identity, and belonging. With notions of the presence and absence of the human body as its organizing principle, this publication features forty-five works of sculpture, painting, ceramics, printmaking, and photography by twenty-four artists in three sections: "The Body in Society" explores identity in relation to others; "The Artist Is Present" po
