Beautiful/ugly : African and diaspora aesthetics
'Beautiful/Ugly' is a collection of essays that tackles the question of aesthetics in contemporary Africa (and its diaspora), by exploring the relationship between beauty and ugliness within African arts, such as sculpture, music, fiction, photography, fashion and urban design
416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
9780822339076, 9780822339182, 0822339072, 0822339188
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Introduction : rethinking beauty / Sarah Nuttall
Picasso, Africa and the schemata of difference / Simon Gikandi
Variations on the beautiful in Congolese worlds of sound / Achille Mbembe
Two thoughts on drawing beauty / William Kentridge
The place of beauty : reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda / Rita Barnard
Quelle Liberté : art, beauty and the grammars of resistance in Douala / Dominique Malaquais
Fresh stories / Pippa Stein
The love of the body : Ousmane Sow and beauty / Els van der Plas
Inheritance / Mark Gevisser
Let's eat : banquet aesthetics and social epicurism / Célestin Monga
Let's cook! / Françoise Vergès
On the slipperiness of food / Cheryl-Ann Michael
Afro-aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho
Yorùbá aesthetics and Trans-Atlantic imaginaries / Kamari Maxine Clarke
Urban imaging : the Friche waiting to happen / Rodney Place
Things ugly : Ghanaian popular painting / Michelle Gilbert
Two stories : old man with garden at the rear end of time and the fat Indian girl / Mia Couto
Seeing the familiar : notes on Mia Couto / Isabel Hofmeyr