The Scramble for Art in Central Africa (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
272
Utgivningsdatum
1998-03-01
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
Keim, Curtis A.
Illustratör/Fotograf
29 b, w illus
Illustrationer
29halftones
Dimensioner
228 x 153 x 18 mm
Vikt
440 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780521586788

The Scramble for Art in Central Africa

av Enid Schildkrout
Häftad,  Engelska, 1998-03-01
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Western attitudes to Africa have been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the arts and artefacts that were brought back by the early collectors, exhibited in museums, and celebrated by scholars and artists in the metropolitan centres. The contributors to this volume trace the life history of artefacts that were brought to Europe and America from Congo towards the end of the nineteenth century, and became the subjects of museum displays. They also present fascinating case studies of the pioneering collectors, including such major figures as Frobenius and Torday. They discuss the complex and sensitive issues involved in the business of 'collecting', and show how the collections and exhibitions influenced academic debates about the categories of art and artefact, and the notion of authenticity, and challenged conventional aesthetic values, as modern Western artists began to draw on African models.
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'The Scramble for Art in Central Africa makes a major contribution to deepening our understanding of Central Africa through deepening our understanding of how our view of it has been constructed. Prospective readers should be further encouraged by the fact that the prose is clear and accessible throughout and the production excellent, with well-chosen illustrations.' The Times Literary Supplement

'The essays in this book provide us with a quite excellent introduction to the ways in which the art - or the craft - of 'others' was comprehended over time by western artists and scholars.' History Today

'... a volume which will certainly sit in many libraries amongst the essential reads of the history of collecting in all its applications.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Innehållsförteckning

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim; 2. 'Enlightened but in darkness': interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century David A. Binkley and Patricia J. Darish; 3. Kuba art and the birth of ethnography John Mack; 4. Curios and curiosity: notes on reading Torday and Frobenius Johannes Fabian; Appendix: on the ethnography and economics of collecting, from Leo Frobenius' Nochmals zu den Bakubavlkern Johannes Fabian; 5. Artes Africanae: the western discovery of 'art' in northeastern Congo Curtis A. Keim; 6. Nineteenth-century images of the Mangbetu in explorers' accounts Christaud M. Geary; 7. Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms: Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang Enid Schildkrout; 8. Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African collection at the Smithsonian Mary Jo Arnoldi; 9. 'Magic, or as we usually say, art': a framework for comparing European and African art Wyatt MacGaffey; References; Index.

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