A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines
the invention and development of African art as an art historical
category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we
talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting
answers to this question, Peter Probst identifies "African art" as
a conceptual vessel that manifests wider societal transformations.
What Is African Art? covers three key stages in the field's
history. Starting with the late nineteenth through the
mid-twentieth centuries, the book first discusses the colonial
formation of the field by focusing on the role of museums,
collectors, and photography in disseminating visual cultures as
relations of power. It then explores the remaking of the field at
the dawn of African independence with the shift toward contemporary
art and the rise of Black Atlantic studies in the 1970s and 1980s.
Finally, it examines the post- and decolonial reconfiguration of
the field driven by questions of representation, repair, and
restitution.
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