Kader Attia: Transformations

by Kader Attia

The manifold entanglements of African and Western culture are a central motif in the oeuvre of the Algerian-French artist Kader Attia. The influence of traditional African architecture on European modernism forms the background for his voluminous spatial installations, videos and photographs, as much as the reappropriation of North and South American black music within African Jazz and Pop of the 1960s up to the 1980s. His work manifests the productivity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3944669231
• ISBN13: 9783944669236
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Spector Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 12.2"