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Titolo: What Is African Art?
Condizione: Nuovo
Subtítulos: A Short History
Formato: Tascabile
ISBN-10: 022679315X
EAN: 9780226793153
ISBN: 9780226793153
Edizione: 1
Genere: Arts & Photography
Data di pubblicazione: 06/12/2022
Lingua: inglese
Paese di origine: US
Altezza: 229mm
Lunghezza: 152mm
Larghezza: 23mm
Peso: 567g
Autore: Peter Probst
Description: A history of the evolving field of African art.
 
This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting answers to this question, Peter Probst identifies “African art” as a conceptual vessel that manifests wider societal transformations.
 
What Is African Art? covers three key stages in the field’s history. Starting with the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, the book first discusses the colonial formation of the field by focusing on the role of museums, collectors, and photography in disseminating visual cultures as relations of power. It then explores the remaking of the field at the dawn of African independence with the shift toward contemporary art and the rise of Black Atlantic studies in the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, it examines the post- and decolonial reconfiguration of the field driven by questions of representation, repair, and restitution.
 

Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Title Format: Paperback
Anno di pubblicazione: 2022

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