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Art History and Fetishism Abroad Global Shiftings in Media and Methods Gabriele Genge, Angela Stercken
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art History.
- Fetishism.
- Culture.
- Object.
- Thingness.
- Visual Studies.
- Transculturality.
- Arts.
- Postcolonialism.
- Cultural History.
- Ethnology.
- Fine Arts.
- Local Subjects:
- Art History.
- Fetishism.
- Culture.
- Object.
- Thingness.
- Visual Studies.
- Transculturality.
- Arts.
- Postcolonialism.
- Cultural History.
- Ethnology.
- Fine Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Genge/Stercken (eds.), Art History Global Shiftings in Media and Methods
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Gabriele Genge is a professor for modern and contemporary art history and art theory at the University Duisburg-Essen. Her recent research covers particularly transcultural and postcolonial areas of the discipline with a specific focus on French Colonialism and African and African-American image theory, knowledge systems and epistemology as well as migratory issues in art history. She supervised the DFG research project »The Anachronic and the Present: Aesthetic Perception and Artistic Concepts of Temporality in the Black Atlantic.«
- Angela Stercken (PhD) is a senior researcher in the DFG project »The Anachronic and the Present: Aesthetic Perception and Artistic Concepts of Temporality in the Black Atlantic« at the University of Duisburg-Essen and member of the DFG-Network »Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents.« Her research fields lie particularly in the theory of image in modern and contemporary art, in space, technology and timekeeping since the 18th century, in phenomena of temporality in art as well as migratory transcultural and transmedia processes especially in maritime spaces such as the transatlantic.
- Summary:
- By focusing on the various modes and media of the fetishised object, this anthology shifts the debates on thingness into a new global art historical perspective. The contributors explore the attention given to those material images, in both artistic and cultural practice from the heyday of colonial expansion until today. They show that in becoming vehicles and agents of transculturality, so called »fetishes« take shape in the 17th to 19th century aesthetics, psychology and ethnography – and furthermore inspire a recent discourse on magical practice and its secular meanings requiring altered art historical approaches and methods.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Content 7 Preface 9 Being Abroad - an Introduction 11 Survival of Images? Fetish and the Concept of the Image between West Africa and Europe 29 Speared Heads. Portraits as Things in 20th-Century Sculpture 57 Fetishism from the Space of Bowdich's Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee to the Time of Erasmus Osei Owusu's (film) ObideAba : Time Will Tell 71 Currency Affairs. Photography and Productivity 93 Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art" 113 [Arte]Fact, Object, Image. Jean-Michel Basquiat's Archives of the Black Atlantic 129 On a Pedestal? On the Problem of the Sculptural as a Category of Perception for Islamic Objects 159 Bocio. From Nothingness to Liminality and Minimality 177 Encounters with Masks: Counter-Primitivism in 20th-Century Black Art 189 Fetishising Modernity: Bricolage Revisited 205 Fixing Shadows: Photography Beyond the Indexical 235 Incorporations of the Other - Exotic Objects, Tropicalism, and Anthropophagy 251 The Court in Dakar. Political Aesthetics in the Post-Colony 271 Monumentality and Transnationality: The Fascination with Gigantic Ding Bronze Vessels in Modern China 289 Why Have There Been No Great Forgeries? Collectors, Artefacts, and the Question of Originality 303 Biographical Notes 317
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839424117
- 3839424119
- OCLC:
- 890000518
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