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Sidney Carolyn Littlefield Kasfir (1939–2019) was an
art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
of
African art African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent. The definition may also include the art of the African diasporas, su ...
.


Career

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir received a MA in art history from
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
and a
Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...
in African art from the
University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
in 1979 with a dissertation on visual arts of the
Idoma people The Idomas are people that primarily inhabit the lower western areas of Benue State, Nigeria, and some of them can be found in Taraba State, Cross Rivers State, Enugu State, Kogi State and Nasarawa State in Nigeria. The Idoma language is classi ...
. She was a professor at Emory University for two decades.


Works

* ''Contemporary African Art'' (1999) * ''African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity'' (2007) * ''Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley'' (2011, co-edited) * ''African Art and Agency in the Workshop'' (2013, co-edited)


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* 1939 births 2019 deaths Emory University faculty Harvard University alumni Alumni of the University of London Historians of African art American art critics {{US-art-historian-stub