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African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity

African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity

Paperback

African HistoryAfrican Art

ISBN10: 0253219221
ISBN13: 9780253219220
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.

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