Migrating objects : arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection / edited by Vivien Greene ; with contributions by Christa Clarke, R. Tripp Evans, Ellen McBreen, Fanny Wonu Veys.
Cataloglog of an exhibition held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, February 15-June 16, 2020. Includes bibliographical references (page 154)
Summary:
Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979) challenged boundaries as a patron and collector. She is celebrated for her groundbreaking collection of European and American modern art. The volume will focus on a lesser-known but crucial episode in Guggenheim's own migratory path: her turn to the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the 1950s and '60s. In these years, Guggenheim acquired works created by artists from cultures worldwide, including early twentieth-century sculpture from Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, and New Guinea, and ancient examples from Mexico and Peru. 'Migrating Objects' emerges from an extended period of research and discussion on this largely ignored area of Guggenheim's collection by a curatorial advisory committee, which has led to exciting findings, including the reattribution of individual works, among them the Nigerian headdress (Ago Egungun) produced by the workshop of Oniyide Adugbologe (ca. 1875-1949), which is illustrated in the catalogue.
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