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One example is Marshall W. Mount, [7] who proposed four categories: first, "survivals of traditional styles", which show continuities in traditional working material and methods such as bronze casting or wood carving; secondly, art inspired by Christian missions; thirdly, souvenir art in the sense of tourist or "airport art", such as by the likes of artworks by South African visual artist ...
This list contains an overview of the government recognized Cultural Properties of the Philippines in Central Luzon. The list is based on the official lists provided by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts, National Historical Commission of the Philippines and the National Museum of the Philippines.
This piece became his seminal The Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997–2002, which consists of 12 rooms (some based on museum function and others personal) filled with objects made by Gaba. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Throughout the exhibition ran a vein of confessional narrative about the artist's art travails between Africa and Europe. [ 5 ]
The different histories of museums in Europe and the United States affected the collecting and display of African art in both places. [6] European museums typically were founded as state institutions and thus their collections and displays were shaped by national interests. African art and artifacts were mostly displayed in an ethnological ...
The study of African art until recently focused on the traditional art of certain well-known groups on the continent, with a particular emphasis on traditional sculpture, masks and other visual culture from non-Islamic West Africa, Central Africa, [15] and Southern Africa with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Recently ...
Magnin specializes in art from non-Western cultures, and especially sub-Saharan art. The CAAC came into being at a time when non-Western contemporary art was largely ignored on the international scene. It was founded shortly after the seminal exhibition The Magicians of the Earth at the Pompidou Center in Paris, curated by Jean-Huber Martin. It ...
From the Kerma culture (2500–1500 BCE), the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of ancient Africa, weapons, items of pottery and other household objects are presented in museums such as the National Museum of Sudan, Kerma Museum, British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [7] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art biennials in Africa are important exponents of the increasing internationalization of contemporary African artists. 18 But one of the pitfalls of this kind of event is the risk of becoming an exotic storefront for Western art critics and curators. 19 Therefore, a real curatorial work has to be done to escape the submission to Western diktat.