Bibliograph

African art and the colonial encounter, inventing a global commodity, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

Type

Label

African art and the colonial encounter, inventing a global commodity, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

African art and the colonial encounter

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

Series statement

African expressive cultures

Sub title

inventing a global commodity

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification