Editing African art (section)

== Scope ==
The study of African art until recently{{when|date=April 2025}} focused on the traditional art of certain well-known groups on the continent, with a particular emphasis on traditional sculpture, masks and other visual culture from non-Islamic West Africa, Central Africa,<ref>[https://high.org/highlights/art-of-central-africa/  Art of central africa] Retrieved 28 April 2022</ref> and Southern Africa with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Recently, however, there has been a movement among African art historians and other scholars to include the visual culture of other regions and time periods. The notion is that by including all African cultures and their visual culture over time in ''African art'', there will be a greater understanding of the continent's visual aesthetics across time. Finally, the arts of the African diaspora, in [[Brazil]], the [[Caribbean]] and the south-eastern [[United States]], have also begun to be included in the study of African art.