Pathways of Art - How Objects Get to the Museum (Paperback)

Art works created by indigenous people on other continents in European and American museums have become subject of controversial debate. How exactly these collections of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries have been amassed over centuries, and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today, is under close scrutiny and claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly. Zurich's Museum Rietberg, one of Europe's most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects travelled from their origins to the museum. They shed light at the shifts in meaning of these artefacts that have occurred in the course of the transfers. And they demonstrate the importance of provenance research for learning comprehensively about and taking a critical approach in the assessment of the complex biographies of artefacts. Pathways of Art offers an important contribution to the current debate about the status and impact of non-European art in the global North. It aims to foster awareness of colonial and post-colonial contexts of trading and collecting such art works and to help establishing new, more informed and just, and less Eurocentric, museum narratives.

General

Imprint:	Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag, Verlag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	July 2022
Editors:	Esther Tisa Francini • Sarah Csernay
Dimensions:	270 x 170 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	440
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-942097-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-942097-6
Barcode:	9783039420971

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