Special Issue 3 African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde

This 3rd Special Issue was published in 2012 to accompany the exhibition "African Art, NewYork, and the Avant-Garde" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Contents:

• African Art, NewYork, and the Avant-Garde. Exhibition Overview
  By Yaëlle Biro
  
  
• From Africa to New York. History and genres of African works in the United States during the 1910s and 20s
  By Yaëlle Biro
  
  
• Art from Côte d’Ivoire
  By Monica Blackmun Visonà
  
  
• Art from Gabon
  By Alisa LaGamma
  
  
• Art from the Congo
  By Constantijn Petridis
  
  
• The John Quinn Collection of African Art and Its Photographic Album by Charles Sheeler
  By Yaëlle Biro
  
  
• The Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African Art
  By Helen M. Shannon
  
  
• African Art and the Photographic Image: Shaping the Taste for the Modern
  By Wendy A. Grossman
  
  
• When, How, and Why Modern Art Came to New York
  By Yaëlle Biro
  

Specifications:

72 pages (bilingual edition English/French)