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The Language of Beauty in African Art

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Yaëlle Biro

Yaëlle Biro is Curator for the Arts of Africa at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her doctoral dissertation was published as Fabriquer le regard: Marchands, réseaux, et objets d’art africains à l’aube du XXe siècle (2018); both it and subsequent publications address the historical role of art dealers and collectors in the definition, promotion, and circulation of African objects as artworks in Europe and the United States.

Herbert M. Cole

Herbert M. Cole is emeritus professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books and other publications on African art—including Invention and Tradition: The Art of Southeastern Nigeria (2012), Igbo (2013), and Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa (2017)—as well as the organizer of several exhibitions on the subject.

Kassim Kone

Kassim Kone is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland. A specialist in Mande culture and West Africa, his research focuses on language, ethnomusicology, and art. His many publications include a monolingual Bamana dictionary, More than a Thousand Mande Proverbs in Bambara and English (1996), with Ilyas Ba-Yunus, Muslims in the United States (2006), and, with Ben Wodi, International Health and Culture (2020).

Babatunde Lawal

Babatunde Lawal is professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. He specializes in African, African American, and African diaspora art with a research focus on Yòrùbá art and aesthetics as well as their influences in the Americas. Widely published, his books include The Gèlèdé Spectacle: Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture (1996).

Constantine Petridis

Constantine Petridis is Curator and Chair of Arts of Africa at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was previously Curator of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Mellon Curator for African Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. He recently authored Luluwa: Central African Art Between Heaven and Earth (2018) and edited Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (2020).

Wilfried van Damme

Wilfried van Damme has taught African art and world art studies, most recently at Leiden University, Netherlands. Trained in Belgium, in art history at Ghent University and in cultural anthropology at Leuven University, his doctoral dissertation was published as Beauty in Context: Towards an Anthropological Approach to Aesthetics (1996). An anthology of Van Damme’s more recent publications on the topic of aesthetics has been published as The Anthropology of Aesthetics: Perspectives and Methods (in Chinese; 2015).

Susan Mullin Vogel

Susan Mullin Vogel is a former museum director, curator, and filmmaker based in New York. She served as professor of art history at Columbia University, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, founding director of the Center for African Art (now closed), and the first curator of African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a specialist in Baule art and aesthetics and author of numerous publications, including Baule: African Art, Western Eyes (1997) and El Anatsui: Art and Life (2020).

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