Use coupon code “WINTER20” for a 20% discount on all items! Valid until 30-11-2024

Site Logo
Search Suggestions

      Royal Mail  express delivery to UK destinations

      Regular sales and promotions

      Stock updates every 20 minutes!

      What Is African Art?: A Short History

      1 in stock

      Firm sale: non returnable item
      SKU 9780226793153 Categories ,
      Select Guide Rating
      A history of the evolving field of African art.   This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting answe...

      £28.00

      Buy new:

      Delivery: UK delivery Only. Usually dispatched in 1-2 working days.

      Shipping costs: All shipping costs calculated in the cart or during the checkout process.

      Standard service (normally 2-3 working days): 48hr Tracked service.

      Premium service (next working day): 24hr Tracked service – signature service included.

      Royal mail: 24 & 48hr Tracked: Trackable items weighing up to 20kg are tracked to door and are inclusive of text and email with ‘Leave in Safe Place’ options, but are non-signature services. Examples of service expected: Standard 48hr service – if ordered before 3pm on Thursday then expected delivery would be on Saturday. If Premium 24hr service used, then expected delivery would be Friday.

      Signature Service: This service is only available for tracked items.

      Leave in Safe Place: This option is available at no additional charge for tracked services.

      Description

      Product ID:9780226793153
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:What Is African Art?
      Subtitle:A Short History
      Authors:Author: Peter Probst
      Page Count:256
      Subjects:History of art, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Africa
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      A history of the evolving field of African art.   This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting answers to this question, Peter Probst identifies “African art” as a conceptual vessel that manifests wider societal transformations.  What Is African Art? covers three key stages in the field’s history. Starting with the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, the book first discusses the colonial formation of the field by focusing on the role of museums, collectors, and photography in disseminating visual cultures as relations of power. It then explores the remaking of the field at the dawn of African independence with the shift toward contemporary art and the rise of Black Atlantic studies in the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, it examines the post- and decolonial reconfiguration of the field driven by questions of representation, repair, and restitution.    
      Imprint Name:University of Chicago Press
      Publisher Name:The University of Chicago Press
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2022-12-06

      Additional information

      Weight434 g
      Dimensions230 × 150 × 15 mm