A book examines material and environment in contemporary African art

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Hyperallergic’s Claire Breukel considers Environment and Object: Recent African Art, a publication developed by curators Lisa Aronson and John S. Weber. She finds its attention to materials and artists’ social and ecological surroundings a useful alternative to familiar stereotypes. While valuing the historical context and an interview with Chika Okeke-Agulu, she questions the absence of contributors based at African universities among the book’s essay writers.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Claire Breukel. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.