15 February 2006 | Africa
“Are we witnessing an attack of fleeting guilty conscience, or a harbinger of readjustment?” Philippe Dagen asks in the Autumn 2005 Critique d’art. “African art, of the living variety, is currently attracting attention in the West which has hitherto been refused it.” Of a recent essay by Jean-Loup Amselle: “Is Africa ‘a warren with fantasies’? [...]
