Bio
Monica Blackmun Visonà is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies and affiliate faculty in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her primary research has been conducted in Ivory Coast and Ghana, and she has interviewed artists and curators in eight other African nations. She was principal author of the first two editions of A History of Art in Africa, and she co-edited (with Gitti Salami) A Companion to Modern African Art. Her other publications include Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d’Ivoire.
Dr. Blackmun Visonà authored five chapters on the art of Africa from early art through the postcolonial period, integrating them with chapters on ancient Egypt and Islamic art. Drawing on twenty years of teaching global surveys, she contributed to the Part Openers, several Seeing Connections features, and the Linkages.
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