CiNii 図書 - The scramble for art in Central Africa

Western attitudes to Africa have been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the arts and artefacts that were brought back by the early collectors, exhibited in museums, and celebrated by scholars and artists in the metropolitan centres. The contributors to this volume trace the life history of artefacts that were brought to Europe and America from Congo towards the end of the nineteenth century, and became the subjects of museum displays. They also present fascinating case studies of the pioneering collectors, including such major figures as Frobenius and Torday. They discuss the complex and sensitive issues involved in the business of 'collecting', and show how the collections and exhibitions influenced academic debates about the categories of art and artefact, and the notion of authenticity, and challenged conventional aesthetic values, as modern Western artists began to draw on African models.

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List of contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim
2. 'Enlightened but in darkness': interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century David A. Binkley and Patricia J. Darish
3. Kuba art and the birth of ethnography John Mack
4. 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 Bakubavoelkern Johannes Fabian
5. Artes Africanae: the western discovery of 'art' in northeastern Congo Curtis A. Keim
6. Nineteenth-century images of the Mangbetu in explorers' accounts Christaud M. Geary
7. Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms: Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang Enid Schildkrout
8. Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African collection at the Smithsonian Mary Jo Arnoldi
9. 'Magic, or as we usually say, art': a framework for comparing European and African art Wyatt MacGaffey
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