Sidney L. KasfirProfessor Emerita

View Sidney Kasfir's Memorial service.

• Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1979

Idoma masquerade and sacred kingship (Nigeria); Samburu blacksmiths (Kenya); contemporary urban and tourist art (Kenya, Uganda); museum representation (USA, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa).

African Art and Agency in the Workshop, eds. Sidney Kasfir and Till Förster (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013)

• Articles on art and authenticity, masks and masquerading, artists and the workshop, artisinal practice, self-representation

Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, eds. Marla Berns, Richard Fardon and Sidney Kasfir (4 chapters) (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum, 2011)

African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007)

Contemporary African Art (London: Thames and Hudson, 1999)

West African Masks and Cultural Systems, ed. Sidney Kasfir (Teruven: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 1988)

"Primitivism" and Modern Art (with Clark Poling); Art and Commodity; Masks and Theory; The Ethnographic Object: Issues of Collection and Display.