What is African art?: a short history

Introduction

Forming a field: colonial collecting, racial omissions, and national rivalries

Celebrating form: from primitive to primitivism

Creating visibility and value: photography and its effects

Discovering the African artist: tradition and tribality in the post-Cold War era

Acknowledging the contemporary: new forms, new actors

Extending the horizon: Africa in the Americas

Intervening the canon: the postmodern, the popular, and the authentic

Challenging representation: postcolonial critique and curation

Undoing the empire: duress, defiance, and decolonial futures

Epilogue.