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Constantine Petridis (Editor)

Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Constantine Petridis (Editor)

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Martha G. Anderson is professor emeritus of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, New York. Her publications include African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial (co-edited with Lisa Aronson; 2017) and Ways of the River: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta (co-edited with Philip M. Peek; 2002).

Kathleen Bickford Berzock is Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. She served as curator of African art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1995 to 2013. Her recent projects include the exhibition and accompanying catalogue Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa (2019).

Pascal James Imperato, a physician and former professor of tropical medicine and public health, is Founding Dean and Dean Emeritus of the School of Public Health at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn. His most recent publications are Mali: A Search for Direction (2019) and Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition around an East African Lake (2018).

Manuel Jordán is Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. He previously served as curator of African art at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California, and at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama. His publications include Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture (co-edited with Christina Hellmich; 2014) and Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia (2007).

Babatunde Lawal is professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. His recent publications include Yoruba (2012), in the Visions of Africa series by 5 Continents Editions, Milan, and Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art: Featuring the Bernard and Patricia Wagner Collection (2007), in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Newark Museum.

Anitra Nettleton is professor emeritus of the division of the History of Art and Chair and Director of the Centre for Creative Arts of Africa at the Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her publications include Beadwork, Art and the Body: Dilo Tše Dintshi/Abundance (2016) and African Dream Machines: Style, Identity and Meaning of African Headrests (2007).

Constantine Petridis is Chair and Curator, Arts of Africa, at the Art Institute of Chicago. He previously served as curator of African art at the Cleveland Museum of Art and assistant professor of art history at Case Western Reserve University. His publications include Luluwa: Central African Art Between Heaven and Earth (2018) and Art and Power in the Central African Savanna (2008).

Janet M. Purdy recently completed her doctorate in art history at Penn State University with a dissertation focused on Swahili carving. She pursued research in Tanzania as a Fulbright Scholar (2018–19) and was awarded the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship in African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (2020–23).

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