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What is African art? : a short history
Author
Title
What is African art? : a short history / Peter Probst.
ISBN
9780226793290 (electronic bk.)
022679329X (electronic bk.)
9780226793016
022679301X
9780226793153
022679315X
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2022.
Other formats
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 02, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Forming a field: colonial collecting, racial omissions, and national rivalries
Celebrating form: from primitive to primitivism
Creating visibility and value: photography and its effects
Discovering the African artist: tradition and tribality in the post-Cold War era
Acknowledging the contemporary: new forms, new actors
Extending the horizon: Africa in the Americas
Intervening the canon: the postmodern, the popular, and the authentic
Challenging representation: postcolonial critique and curation
Undoing the empire: duress, defiance, and decolonial futures
Epilogue.
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Walter de Gruyter & Co. University of Chicago Press Complete 2022.
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