World Art and the Legacies of Colonial Violence

'How have imperialism and its after-effects impacted patterns of cultural exchange, artistic creativity and historical / curatorial interpretation? World Art and the Legacies of Colonial Violence - comprised of nine essays by an international roster of art historians, curators and anthropologists - forges innovative approaches to post-colonial studies, Indigenous studies, critical heritage studies and the new museology.

This volume probes the degree to which global histories of conflict, coercion and occupation have shaped art historical approaches to intercultural knowledge and representation. These debates are relevant to contemporary artists and scholars of visual, material and museological culture in their attempts to negotiate imperial and colonial legacies.

Confronting the aesthetics of Abolition, Fascism and Filipino independence, and re-thinking relationships between colonised and coloniser in Cameroon, North America and East Timor, the collection brings together new readings of Primitivism and Aboriginal art as well. It features discussions of touring exhibitions, popular media, modernist paintings and sculptures, historic photographs, human remains and art installations. In addition to the critical application of phenomenology in a fresh and contemporary manner, the volume's "world art" perspective nurtures the possibility that intercultural ethics are relevant to the study of art, power and modernity.' - from flapped page.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Ashgate (Farnham, United Kingdom)

editor

Daniel J. RYCROFT

Location code

REF.RYD

Language

English

Keywords

postcolonialism, globalisation, touring exhibition, modernism, museum studies, anthropology, art history, contemporaneity, indigenous art, collective memory, trauma

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

263

ISBN / ISSN

9781409455882

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Imperial tensions: a conceptual introduction - Daniel J. RYCROFT

Part 1 Empires and exhibition

Yeyap's resources: representation and the arts of the Bamum in Cameroon and France, 1902-1935 - Simon DELL

Integrating the 'Indian': the Indigenious American collections of George Catlin and Paul Kane - Stephanie PRATT

Inventing Australian Aboriginal art: from anti-art to fine art - Ian MCLEAN

Part 2 Imperial alterations

Violence and memory: slavery in the museum - Sarah THOMAS

The head of Capital Câmara: colonial violence and the collection and repartriation of white men's remains - Ricardo ROQUE

Forging the New World: an anthropological gaze into La Difesta della Razza Panopticon - Maria Teresa MILICIA

Part 3 Modernist apprehensions

Sculptures, monuments and 'fetishes': the intersections of German Kolonialwissenscharften (coloinal sciences), ethnography and national identity - Heike M. NEUMEISTER

Between possessions: collecting art and identity in a time of war in the Philippines - Patrick D. FLORES

Co-existence and art-historical apprehensions - Daniel J. RYCROFT

World Art and the Legacies of Colonial Violence

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