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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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