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Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Born1939 (1939)
York, Maine, United States
DiedDecember 29, 2019(2019-12-29) (aged 79–80)
Maralal, Kenya
OccupationArt historian
Known forHistory of African art
Academic background
EducationHarvard University
Alma materUniversity of London
ThesisVisual Arts of the Idoma of Central Nigeria (1979)
Notes

Sidney Carolyn Littlefield Kasfir (1939–2019) was an art historian of African art.

Career

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir received a MA in art history from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in African art from the University of London in 1979 with a dissertation on visual arts of the Idoma people. She was a professor at Emory University for two decades.[2]

Works

  • Contemporary African Art (1999)[3][4]
  • African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity (2007)[5]
  • Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley (2011, co-edited)[6]
  • African Art and Agency in the Workshop (2013, co-edited)[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Nagawa, Margaret; Serubiri, Moses (February 4, 2020). "In Remembrance of Sidney Littlefield Kasfir (1939–2019)". Start Journal. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  2. ^ "Sidney Carolyn Littlefield Kasfir CV" (PDF).
  3. ^ Ezra, Kate (2001). "Review of Contemporary African Art". African Arts. 34 (1): 11–93. doi:10.2307/3337728. ISSN 0001-9933. JSTOR 3337728.
  4. ^ Förster, Till (2001). "Review of Contemporary African Art". Anthropos. 96 (1): 267–269. ISSN 0257-9774. JSTOR 40465501.
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  6. ^ Parker, John (2013). "Review of Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 76 (1): 195–197. doi:10.1017/S0041977X12001917. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 41811301. S2CID 162672556.
  7. ^ Hahn, Hans Peter (2014). "Review of African art and agency in the workshop". Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde. 60: 284–287. ISSN 0078-7809. JSTOR 44242859.
  8. ^ Perrill, Elizabeth (2015). "Review of African Art and Agency in the Workshop". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 48 (1): 131–133. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 44715395.

Further reading