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03468aam a2200373 i 4500 001 D39DA3528D8F11ED8E4B8F0D5CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230106010022 008 220214t20222022ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022006679 020 $a 022679315X 020 $a 9780226793153 020 $a 022679301X 020 $a 9780226793016 035 $a (OCoLC)1304257531 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TOH $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a N7380 $b .P76 2022 082 00 $a 709.6 $2 23/eng/20220317 100 1 $a Probst, Peter, $e author. 245 10 $a What is African art? : $b a short history / $c Peter Probst. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 275 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Forming a field: colonial collecting, racial omissions, and national rivalries -- Celebrating form: from primitive to primitivism -- Creating visibility and value: photography and its effects -- Discovering the African artist: tradition and tribality in the post-Cold War era -- Acknowledging the contemporary: new forms, new actors -- Extending the horizon: Africa in the Americas -- Intervening the canon: the postmodern, the popular, and the authentic -- Challenging representation: postcolonial critique and curation -- Undoing the empire: duress, defiance, and decolonial futures -- Epilogue. 520 $a "What do we have in mind when we talk about African art? This book examines the shifting answers to that question. Fluidly written, it is the first book to explore the full historical arc of the invention and development of the category of "African art" and the academic field of African art history. It is meant to be an accessible guide through the history of the field, showing us how it started and has changed from its contested beginnings until today. Peter Probst helps the reader understand how Africanists have continuously filled the notion of African art with new meanings and why these shifts manifest wider societal transformations. The book covers three key stages in the field's history, starting with the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth century. Here Probst focuses on museums, processes of collecting, photography's role in disseminating visual culture, and how early anthropologists and art historians-and artists-imbued collected objects with values that spoke to scientific debates about the evolution and diffusion of culture prominent at the time. Probst then explores the rise of Black Atlantic studies in the 1970s and 1980s, when African art history fell under the gaze of African American critique and saw an explosion of interest in contemporary African art. Finally, he examines the postcolonial reconfiguration of the field driven by questions of heritage, reparation, and the "crisis of representation." Probst believes that if the study of African art is to move in productive new directions, we must look to how the field is evolving in Africa for new models of inquiry"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Art, African $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Art, African $x Historiography. 941 $a 3 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240501010120.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20231021031928.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230106011014.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D39DA3528D8F11ED8E4B8F0D5CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search