What Is African Art?: A Short History Probst Peter
A history of the evolving field of African art.Peter Probst offers the first book to explore the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. He starts his exploration with…
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A history of the evolving field of African art.Peter Probst offers the first book to explore the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. He starts his exploration with a simple question: What do we actually talk about when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting answers to this question, Probst identifies the notion of African art as a conceptual vessel whose changing content manifests wider societal transformations. The perspective is a pragmatic and relational one. Rather than providing an affirmative answer to what African art is and what local meanings it has, Probst shows how the works labeled as "African art" figure in the historical processes and social interactions that constitute the Africanist art world.What Is African Art? covers three key stages in the field's history. Starting with the
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