"One speaks softly, like in a sacred place”: collecting, studying and exhibiting Congolese artefacts as African art in Belgium (1850–1897)
This article will try to correct the ‘modernist myth’, dating the ‘discovery’ of African ‘art’ after 1900, by looking at Belgium and its colony at the end of the 19th century. Although Africans themselves were of course the first to appreciate the beauty of their own objects, not only European artis...
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Sprog: | Inglês |
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2015-07-01
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| Serier: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online adgang: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/couttenier.pdf |
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