African Art

Shot on location in Mali, this film sets looks past Western preconceptions to see the art of Africa through the eyes of Africans. It reappraises the enormous influence of African art on twentieth-century Modernism, on the work of artists such as Picasso, and includes contributions from some of the leading curators and academics who are now advocating the need to set African art against the background of the huge diversity of the cultures and traditions which have produced it.