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The scramble for art in Central Africa / edited by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim.
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0521583497
9780521583497
052158678X
9780521586788
Title
The scramble for art in Central Africa / edited by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim.
Publisher and/or associated date/s
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description
xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Objects and agendas : re-collecting the Congo /
Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim --
"Enlightened but in darkness" : interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century /
David A. Binkley and Patricia J. Darish --
Kuba art and the birth of ethnography /
John Mack --
Curios and curiosity : notes on reading Torday and Frobenius /
Johannes Fabian --
Appendix : on the ethnography and economics of collecting, from Leo Frobenius' Nochmals zu den Bakubavölkern /
translated by Johannes Fabian --
Artes Africanae : the western discovery of "art" in northeastern Congo /
Curtis A. Keim --
Nineteenth-century images of the Mangbetu in explorers' accounts /
Christraud M. Geary --
Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms : Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang /
Enid Schildkrout --
Where art and ethnology met : the Ward African collection at the Smithsonian /
Mary Jo Arnoldi --
"Magic, or as we usually say, art" : a framework for comparing European and African art /
Wyatt MacGaffey.
Summary
Selected papers from a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1990 in conjunction with the exhibition entitled "African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire". Selected papers deal specifically with late 19th and early 20th century collecting.
Subjects
Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic)
Art -- Collectors and collecting
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons
Schildkrout, Enid
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Keim, Curtis A.
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2023.066
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