Time Loops: Producing “Primitivism” in Africa
Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Z. S. Strother, University of California, Los Angeles
Picasso: Relooking at Africa
Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University
Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture in the Spaces of French Modernism
John Monroe, Iowa State University
Primitivism on Trial: the “Picasso and Africa” Exhibition in South Africa
Julie L. McGee, Bowdoin College
The Legacy of Primitivism in Contemporary Senegal: Art, Politics, and Institutional Discourses since the 1990s
Maureen Murphy, Université Paris I Sorbonne
Cultural Heritage and the Popularity of Primitivism
Peter M. Probst, Tufts University
Discussant: Steven Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles