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The Museum of African Art: Contexts and Representations
Author: Ana Sladojević, PhD
The Museum of African Art's FIRST E-Publication
"The Museum of African Art: Contexts and Representations" by art theoretician Ana Sladojević, PhD, is a new book which will be available and free to download on the Museum's official web-site on May 5th, 2014.
The book is an edited version based on the doctoral dissertation defended at the Group for Theory, Arts and Media, part of the Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, under the mentorship of Professor Nevena Daković, PhD.
Apart from being the first doctoral dissertation that deals with the Museum of African Art: the Veda and dr Zdravko Pečar Collection, in the wider context of African arts representations, this book is at the same time the first exclusively electronic publication of the Museum, available to all on the museum's web page.
The Forward to the book was written by Olga Manojlović Pintar, PhD, who in the field of the theoretical considerations of African arts representations in Serbia, states the following:
Succeeding the pioneering project of Dejan Sretenović "Black Body, White Masks", the book by Ana Sladojević, "The Museum of African Art: Contexts and Representations", is a valuable contribution to this complex issue. She has offered answers to the mentioned questions, but at the same time opened new topics for consideration. By deliberating on the problems of the representation of the cultures and civilisations of Africa, she has clearly underlined the impossibility of simplified equalisation of Yugoslav practices with the imperialistic politics of European metropolises, as well as the unsustainability of insisting on a filtered approach devoid of dominant cultural content that were the product of modernist times. (Manojlović Pintar, 2014: viii)
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