Book Review
Africa, Polly Savage; The Voice of Africa: African Voices,
John Picton; Lagos/Kaduna/Oshogbo, Nigeria; Kumasi,
Ghana; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Nairobi, Kenya; Kampala,
Uganda; Lusaka, Zambia; Harare/Bulawayo, Zimbabwe;
Johannesburg, South Africa; Cape Town, South Africa;
Limpopo, South Africa; Maputo, Mozambique; Gaborone
and D’Kar, Botswana; Windhoek, Namibia; Selected
Reading; Index. AD
Polly Savage is a writer, curator and Senior Teaching
Fellow in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS,
London. She was previously Associate Lecturer
in World Arts at Birkbeck College and Assistant
Curator at the October Gallery, London, and has
published and lectured widely on contemporary art
in Africa and diasporas.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
PUBLISHED: December 8, 2014
AUTHOR: Edited by Polly Savage with essays by
Robert Loder and John Picton and a Foreword
by Sir Anthony Caro
PAGES: 304
SIZE: 270 X 249MM (Hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1-84822-151-2
PUBLISHERS: Lund Humphries
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Robert Loder CBE has had strong links with Africa
since the mid-1950s − he lived and worked in
South Africa, and then Zambia, for eight years from
1955. Back in the UK, he was Treasurer and then
Chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts
during the 1970s and in 1982 he co-founded the
Triangle Workshop with Sir Anthony Caro. Over
the next two decades, Triangle developed into a
network of workshops and studio buildings in over
twenty countries. Throughout the 1990s he visited
Africa frequently, and as Chairman of Triangle Arts
Trust in the UK he promoted Triangle workshops
and studios in many countries in Africa, South Asia
and the Caribbean.
John Picton is Emeritus Professor in African Art at
the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London. He worked for the Nigerian
government’s Department of Antiquities from
1961 to 1970, and for the British Museum from
1970 to 1979. His research and publications cover
Yoruba and Edo (Benin) sculpture, masquerade
and textile history in sub-Saharan Africa, and the
transformations of African visual practice in the
19th and 20th centuries.
Dreams of Europe; William Kentridge
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