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Through African eyes : the European in African art, 1500 to present
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- Creator
- edited by Nii O. Quarcoopome ; essays by Veit Arlt ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Detroit : Detroit Institute of Arts, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780895581631, 0895581639
- OCLC
- ocn431934272
- "This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present, Detroit Institute of Arts, April 11-August 8, 2010, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, September 25, 2010-January 9, 2011."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-295).
- Iwebo and the white men in Benin / Barbara W. Blackmun -- The introduction of European icons in the lower Congo and northern Angola / Niangi Batulukisi -- Dancing on the knife of power: comedy, narcissism, and subversion in the portrayals of Europeans and Americans by central Africans / Z.S. Strother -- Photography, European emblems, and statecraft in Manya Krobo (Ghana) about 1860-1939 / Veit Arlt and Nii O. Quarcoopome -- Balancing power and parody: European hats in Ewe visual culture, 1850-1950 / Nii O. Quarcoopome -- Through the lenses of African photographers: depicting foreigners and new ways of life, 1870-1950 / Christraud M. Geary -- European carpentry and patronage and the origins of twentieth-century Ewe ivories / Nii O. Quarcoopome -- Mandela rides a casspir: mockery, mimicry, wire toys, and war machines during apartheid / John Peffer -- Haircuts, celebrity portraits, and stardom: Americanism and youth art in Ghana's inner cities / Nii O. Quarcoopome