Art and Fetish in the Anthropology Museum

Between the 1920s and early 1980s an increasing number of African art exhibitions opened to the public in Western Europe and North America. In these exhibitions African religious objects such as masks and wooden figurines were reframed as modernist art. Focusing on the illustrative case of the Natio...

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Main Author: Silva, Sónia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2017]
In: Material religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-96
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Cultic object / Art / Museums
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
Further subjects:B African art
B cult object
B fetish
B Species
B anthropology museums
B Artifact
B Modernism
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)