The Scramble for Art in Central AfricaEnid Schildkrout, Curtis A. Keim Cambridge University Press, 28 mars 1998 - 257 sidor 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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Objects and agendas recollecting the Congo | 1 |
Enlightened but in darkness Interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century | 37 |
Kuba art and the birth of ethnography | 63 |
Curios and curiosity Notes on reading Torday and Frobenius | 79 |
On the ethnography and economics of collecting from Leo Frobenius Nochmals zu den Bakubavõlkern | 101 |
Artes Africanae the western discovery of Art in northeastern Congo | 109 |
Nineteenthcentury images of the Mangbetu in explorers accounts | 133 |
Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang | 169 |
Where art and ethnology met The Ward African Collection at the Smithsonian | 193 |
Magic or as we usually say Art A framework for comparing European and African art | 217 |
References | 236 |
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The Scramble for Art in Central Africa Enid Schildkrout,Curtis A. Keim Ingen förhandsgranskning - 1998 |
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aesthetic African art African material culture African objects American Museum anthropology APCM artifacts artistic authenticity Azande Bakongo Bakuba began Belgian British Museum bronze Bunsa Bushongo carved Casati Central Africa collectors colonial Congo Free Congo River Congolese context curators curios decorative described Diary discussion display Emil Torday ethnographic ethnology European example exhibition expedition explorer fetishes figurative art Frederick Starr gallery Georg Schweinfurth Herbert Lang Herbert Ward Hilton-Simpson idea illustrations interest ivory Johnston Junker Kasai king Kongo Kuba art Kuba culture Lapsley Leo Frobenius Leopold Luebo Mangbetu masks Mbunza minkisi mission missionaries Munsa Museum of Natural native Natural History ndop figures Negro neighbors Netolu nineteenth century nkisi northeastern Congo noted paradigms photographs political primitive racial representation royal rubber ruler Schildkrout and Keim Schweinfurth 1874a scientific sculpture Sheppard sketch Smithsonian Starr tion Torday Torday's trade tradition Uele Verner village visited visual Vorticists Ward's weapons Western Wood engraving
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