While attending school in New York City in the 1980s, Okwui Enwezor encountered few works...
While attending school in New York City in the 1980s, Okwui Enwezor encountered few works by African artists in exhibitions, despite New York’s reputation as one of the best places to view contemporary art from around the world. According to an arts journalist, later in his career as a renowned curator and art historian, Enwezor sought to remedy this deficiency, not by focusing solely on modern African artists, but by showing how their work fits into the larger context of global modern art and art history. Which finding, if true, would most directly support the journalist’s claim?
- A) As curator of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, Enwezor organized a retrospective of Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui
- B) In the exhibition Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945
- C) Enwezor
- D) Enwezor organized the exhibition In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present not to emphasize a particular aesthetic trend but to demonstrate the broad range of ways in which African artists have approached the medium of photography.
Correct Answer: B) In the exhibition Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945
Explanation
The finding that would most directly support the journalist's claim that Okwui Enwezor sought to remedy the deficiency of African artists in exhibitions by showing how their work fits into the larger context of global modern art and art history is: B) In the exhibition Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945