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African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity
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by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

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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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  • Title African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity
  • Author Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press (Ips), Bloomington
  • Publication date 2007-10-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780253219220 / 0253219221
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Art and globalization, Great Britain - Colonies - Africa
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896

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Sidney Littlefield Kasfir is Professor in the Department of Art History at Emory University where she is also Faculty Curator of African Art. She is author of Contemporary African Art and editor of West African Masks and Cultural Systems.

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