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Art history and fetishism abroad : global shiftings in media and methods /

By focusing on the various modes and media of the fetishised object, this anthology shifts the debates on thingness into a new global art historical perspective. The contributors explore the attention given to those material images, in both artistic and cultural practice from the heyday of colonial...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Genge, Gabriele (Editor ), Stercken, Angela (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2014]
Colección:Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; Volume 54.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover Art History and Fetishism Abroad. Global Shiftings in Media and Methods; Content; Preface; Being Abroad
  • an Introduction; Phenomenologies; Survival of Images? Fetish and the Concept of the Image between West Africa and Europe; Speared Heads. Portraits as Things in 20th-Century Sculpture; Fetishism from the Space of Bowdich's Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee to the Time of Erasmus Osei Owusu's (film) Obidi? Aba: Time Will Tell; Production of Knowledge; Currency Affairs. Photography and Productivity.
  • Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art"[Arte]Fact, Object, Image. Jean-Michel Basquiat's Archives of the Black Atlantic; On a Pedestal? On the Problem of the Sculptural as a Category of Perception for Islamic Objects; Under the Influence of Things; Bocio. From nothingness to Liminality and Minimality; Encounters with Masks: Counter-Primitivism in 20th-Century Black Art; Fetishising Modernity: Bricolage Revisited; Fixing Shadows: Photography Beyond the Indexical; Politics of Identity.
  • Incorporations of the Other
  • Exotic Objects, Tropicalism, and AnthropophagyThe Court in Dakar. Political Aesthetics in the Post-Colony; Monumentality and Transnationality: The Fascination with Gigantic Ding Bronze Vessels in Modern China; Why Have There Been No Great Forgeries? Collectors, Artefacts, and the Question of Originality; Biographical Notes.