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African Art in Transit

African Art in Transit

by Christopher B. Steiner
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/01/1994

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African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect so-called 'primitive' art in Europe and America is based on extensive field research among the art traders in Cote d'Ivoire. Steiner provides a lucid interpretation which reveals not only a complex economic network with its own internal logic and rules, but also an elaborate process of transcultural valuation and exchange. By focusing directly on the intermediaries in the African art trade, he unveils a critical new perspective on how symbolic codes and economic values are mediated in the context of shifting geographic and cultural domains. He questions conventional definitions of authenticity in African art by demonstrating how the categories 'authentic' and 'traditional' are continually redefined.
ISBN:
9780521457521
9780521457521
Category:
Folk art
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-01-1994
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
229x153x17mm
Weight:
0.39kg

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