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African Art and the Colonial Encounter

Name: African Art and the Colonial Encounter
ISBN: 9780253219220

Inventing a Global Commodity

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

Indiana University Press · 2007-10-24

African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity

History LITERARY CRITICISM Art african studies photography

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Who It's For

Good for readers who enjoy Art / African
Good for readers interested in african
Good for fans of Africa

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Themes: History, African, Studies.
Reading lane: African and Africa.
Publisher: Indiana University Press.

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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.