African art and the colonial encounter : inventing a global commodity /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007.
Colección:African expressive cultures.
Temas:
Samburu (African people) > Material culture.
Idoma (African people) > Material culture.
Art, African > Western influences.
Spears > Kenya.
Colonies in art.
Exoticism in art.
Art and globalization.
Samburu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Culture matérielle.
Idoma (Peuple d'Afrique) > Culture matérielle.
Colonies dans l'art.
Exotisme dans l'art.
Art et mondialisation.
Africa.
Kenya.
Nigeria.
Samburu.
Idoma.
warriors.
masks.
traditional weapons.
colonialism.
visual arts.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
ART > African.
Art, African > Western influences
Art and globalization
British colonies
Colonies in art
Exoticism in art
Spears
Kunst
Kunsthandel
Kulturkontakt
Speer
Kunst.
Kolonialisme.
Kunsthandel.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique.
Africa
Kenya
Afrika
Afrika.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: colonial power and aesthetic practice
  • Part 1. Warriors. Maa warriorhood and British colonial discource.
  • Idoma warriorhood and the Pax Britannica
  • Part 2. Sculptors and smiths. Colonial rupture and innovation: the colonizer as inadvertent patron
  • Samburu smiths, Idoma maskmakers: power at a distance
  • Part 3. Masks, spears, the body. Mask and spear: art, thing, commodity
  • Warrior theatre and the ritualized body
  • Part 4. Commodities. Idoma sculpture: colonialism and the market for African art
  • Samburu encounters with modernity: spears as tourist souvenirs
  • Samburu warriors in Hollywood films: cinematic commodities
  • Reprise: the three C's: colonialism, commidities, and complex representations
  • Coda: from spears to guns in the North Rift.

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