Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

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.

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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