Arte negro 50+50

William Rey Ashfield, Elena O'Neill

The book comprosess a series of texts related to the exhibition held 50 years ago at the Museo de Arte Precolombino under the iniciative of Francisco Matto, as a testimony of the spread of African art beyond the workshops of artists and their late reception in Uruguay. On the one hand, it is a first step on the way to rething from Uruguy, an African continent with great wealth and variety of ethnicities and its gigantic aesthetic contribution. And on the other hand, a contribution to the dislocation of the hegemonic dislocation of art history, almost always focused on European modernity.