Remembering the present : painting and popular history in Zaire / Johannes Fabian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabian, Johannes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tshibumba Kanda Matulu--Themes, motives.

Tshibumba Kanda Matulu.

Zaire in art--Exhibitions.

Zaire in art.

Tshibumba Kanda Matulu--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

xv, 348 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1996]

Summary:

"This is an extraordinarily original, powerfully argued book; provocative in the best sense of the word. The sheer juxtaposition of the terrible history of Zaire as painted by a Zairean popular artist who lived through some of the worst of it, the artist's precise and eloquent explications of his work, a bluntly factualist account of the events depicted, and Fabian's searching ethnographical commentary, without privileging any of these so different types of discourse over any of the others, raises some of the most fundamental and most difficult questions in history, art, and anthropology. "Remembering the Present is a major step forward in both the presentation of cultural materials and in their analysis."--Clifford Geertz

Contents:

Pt. 1. The history of Zaire as painted and told by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu

pt. 2. All was lost: ethnographic essays on Tshibumba's history of Zaire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0520203755

0520203763

OCLC:

34412571