构成本出版物的文章均在 AICA 于 2003 年至 2007 年间在非洲举办的三场研讨会上宣读。这些研讨会秉持共同的目标：不仅要在非洲语境中激发关于促成艺术作品审美、历史与经济价值的种种因素的辩论，还要设法更多地了解该地区的艺术实践。它们既考察了非洲艺术批评所处的语境，也审视了先是殖民、继而后殖民、最终是全球经济对非洲艺术及关于艺术的书写之发展的影响。目录 序言：批评的问题 Yacouba Konaté 导论：逆流 Henry Meyric Hughes、Ramon Tió Bellido 非洲的文化：身份与展览 谁能够批评当代非洲艺术？Djadji Iba N’Diagne 现代性、现代主义与非洲在我们时代艺术史中的地位。后殖民主义与依附综合征 Rasheed Araeen 非洲与欧洲的各大艺术盛事…
The papers that comprise this publication were all delivered in the course of the three seminars that AICA organised in Africa between 2003 and 2007. These symposia shared the common aim, not only of stimulating debate about the various factors contributing to the aesthetic, historic and economic value of a work of art in an African context, but of trying to find out more about artistic practices in the region. They combined an examination of the contexts for art criticism in Africa with a look at the effects of, first, a colonial, then a post-colonial and, finally, a global economy on the development of art and writing about art in Africa. Contents / Sommaire Preface / Préface : Questions of Criticism / Demandes de critique Yacouba Konaté Introduction / Introduction : Crosscurrents / Contre courants Henry Meyric Hughes, Ramon Tió Bellido Cultures in Africa: Identities and Exhibitions Cultures en Afrique : identités et expositions Qui peut critiquer l’art africain contemporain ? Djadji Iba N’Diagne Modernity, Modernism and Africa’s Place in the History of Art of Our Age. Postcolonialism and the Dependency Syndrome Rasheed Araeen L’Afrique et les grands événements artistiques en Eu…