Sidney L. Kasfir

Associate Professor

Art History Department
Emory University
140 Carlos Hall
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-0808

hartsk@emory.edu

Curriculum Vitae

SIDNEY L. KASFIR (Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1979)

Research Interests

Idoma masquerade and sacred kingship (Nigeria); Samburu blacksmiths (Kenya); contemporary urban and tourist art (Kenya, Uganda); museum representation (USA, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa).

Selected Publications

Contemporary African Art, Thames and Hudson, 1999.

West African Masks and Cultural Systems (ed.), Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, 1988.

The Wounded Warrior: Colonial Transformations in African Art (forthcoming).

Articles on art and authenticiy, masks and masquerading, artists and the workshop, artisanal practice, self-representation.

Selected Seminars

"Primitivism" and Modern Art (with Clark Poling); Art and Commodity; Masks and Theory; The Ethnographic Object: Issues of Collection and Display.