Art History and Fetishism Abroad : : Global Shiftings in Media and Methods /

Art History and Fetishism Abroad : : Global Shiftings in Media and Methods / / ed. by Gabriele Genge, Angela Stercken.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts and Architecture 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Adandé, Joseph C.E.,
Genge, Gabriele,
Karentzos, Alexandra,
Kravagna, Christian,
Körner, Hans,
Meincke, Kerstin,
Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwunodu,
Okoye, Ikem Stanley,
Picton, John,
Reinhardt, Thomas,
Schmidt-Linsenhoff, Viktoria,
Stercken, Angela,
Troelenberg, Eva-Maria,
Tseng, Lillian Lan-ying,
Ulz, Melanie,
HerausgeberIn:
Genge, Gabriele,
Stercken, Angela,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Image ; 54
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Being Abroad – an Introduction
  • Phenomenologies
  • Survival of Images? Fetish and the Concept of the Image between West Africa and Europe
  • Speared Heads. Portraits as Things in 20th–Century Sculpture
  • Fetishism from the Space of Bowdich’s Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee to the Time of Erasmus Osei Owusu’s (film) ObideεAba : Time Will Tell
  • Production of Knowledge
  • Currency Affairs. Photography and Productivity
  • Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of “African Art”
  • [Arte]Fact, Object, Image. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Archives of the Black Atlantic
  • On a Pedestal? On the Problem of the Sculptural as a Category of Perception for Islamic Objects
  • Under the Influence of Things
  • Bocio. From Nothingness to Liminality and Minimality
  • Encounters with Masks: Counter-Primitivism in 20th–Century Black Art
  • Fetishising Modernity: Bricolage Revisited
  • Fixing Shadows: Photography Beyond the Indexical
  • Politics of Identity
  • Incorporations of the Other – Exotic Objects, Tropicalism, and Anthropophagy
  • The Court in Dakar. Political Aesthetics in the Post–Colony
  • Monumentality and Transnationality: The Fascination with Gigantic Ding Bronze Vessels in Modern China
  • Why Have There Been No Great Forgeries? Collectors, Artefacts, and the Question of Originality
  • Biographical Notes

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