REINVENTING AFRICA. Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
New Haven: 1994. viii, 280 pages, 112 photographs and drawings. Cloth cover. Item #9057
Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many valuable African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. This fascinating work analyzes the ways in which African peoples and their material culture were represented in Britain at that time. Through a series of detailed case studies, the author analyzes Britain's popular and scientific knowledge of Africa during that period. This volume, extremely well researched and written, presents one of the more fascinating theses regarding the lure of African/tribal/ethnological art in Great Britain (and other parts of Europe) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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