African Art and the Colonial Encounter

Inventing a Global Commodity

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art History, African, General Art, History, Africa
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Author: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir ISBN: 9780253022653
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: October 24, 2007
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
ISBN: 9780253022653
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: October 24, 2007
Imprint: Indiana University Press
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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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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