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A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s,
sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For
decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless
works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western
museums. In Africa's Struggle for Its Art, Benedicte Savoy brings
to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of
the world's foremost experts on restitution and cultural heritage,
Savoy investigates extensive, previously unpublished sources to
reveal that the roots of the struggle extend much further back than
prominent recent debates indicate, and that these efforts were
covered up by myriad opponents. Shortly after 1960, when eighteen
former colonies in Africa gained independence, a movement to pursue
repatriation was spearheaded by African intellectual and political
classes. Savoy looks at pivotal events, including the watershed
speech delivered at the UN General Assembly by Zaire's president,
Mobutu Sese Seko, which started the debate regarding restitution of
colonial-era assets and resulted in the first UN resolution on the
subject. She examines how German museums tried to withhold
information about their inventory and how the British Parliament
failed to pass a proposed amendment to the British Museum Act,
which protected the country's collections. Savoy concludes in the
mid-1980s, when African nations enacted the first laws focusing on
the protection of their cultural heritage. Making the case for why
restitution is essential to any future relationship between African
countries and the West, Africa's Struggle for Its Art will shape
conversations around these crucial issues for years to come.
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Lander (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R8,501
R7,680
Discovery Miles 76 800
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Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory
all of these composite designations have come into our parlance in
recent years. Above all, this expanding terminology underscores the
growing scholarly interest in museums. In this new scholarship, a
recurring assertion is that as an institution, the museum has
largely functioned as a venue for the formation of specifically
national identities. This volume, by contrast, highlights the
museum as a product of transnational processes of exchange,
focusing on the period from ca. 1750 to 1940."
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Lander (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R7,350
R6,529
Discovery Miles 65 290
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Toroni - Tupynamba (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R8,527
R7,569
Discovery Miles 75 690
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Tur - Valldosera (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R8,527
R7,569
Discovery Miles 75 690
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The ongoing "Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon is the most extensive,
up-to-date and authoritative art history reference work on artists.
Each volume profiles approximately 7,000 artists from all time
periods and across the globe.
Volume 77 contains, inter alia, entries on Alfredo Jaar (by
Sangestan Shabab), Jacopo della Quercia (Helen Geddes), Wenzel
Jamnitzer (Sven Hauschke), Marcel Janco (Harry Seiwert), Horst
Janssen (Jutta Moster-Hoos), Alexej Jawlensky (Tayfun Belgin),
Pierre Jeanneret (Catherine Courtiau) und Thomas Jefferson (Gerhard
Bissell). .
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Lander (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meissner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R7,825
R5,259
Discovery Miles 52 590
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Franz Theodor Kugler (1808 1858) gehort unbestritten zu den ersten
namhaften deutschen Kunsthistorikern. Ihm verdankt man insbesondere
die Einbettung der Kunstgeschichte als asthetische
Auseinandersetzung mit den uberlieferten Kunstwerken in die
allgemeine Geschichte. 1837 veroffentlichte er sein Handbuch der
Geschichte der Malerei von Konstantin dem Grossen bis auf die
neuere Zeit. Bald darauf folgte ein zweites bahnbrechendes Werk,
das Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte (1842). In weiteren Schriften
legte Kugler den Akzent auf die Kunstgeschichte Berlins und der
Umgebung und versuchte zugleich, die Kunstwissenschaft mit
geographischen Betrachtungen zu verknupfen. Die Geschichte der
Baukunst, an der Jakob Burckhardt und Wilhelm Lubke mitwirkten,
zeugt von seiner Neigung zu Gesamtdarstellungen. Kugler war auch
als Kunstreferent des preussischen Kulturministeriums tatig und
konnte seine Ansichten in die Praxis der Kunstverwaltung umsetzen.
Sein weitverzweigtes Netz von Bekannten und Freunden unter den
Berliner Schriftstellern der Zeit, von Emanuel Geibel und Paul
Heyse bis zum jungen Theodor Fontane, illustriert eine
paradigmatische Verbindung von Literatur- und Kunstbetrachtung, die
von der Zusammenarbeit mit Adolph Menzel an der Geschichte
Friedrichs des Grossen (1840) oder aber von seinen eigenen
Gedichten weiter dokumentiert wird. Der vorliegende Band widmet
sich erstmals ausfuhrlich der Figur Kuglers, die weitgehend in
Vergessenheit geraten ist, obwohl sie fur das Verstandnis der
Kunstwissenschaft, der Berliner Salonkultur und der allgemeinen
deutschen Kulturgeschichte von den 1830er bis zu den 1850er Jahren
unerlassliche Schlussel liefert."
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Lander (German, Hardcover)
Gunter Meiner; Edited by Andreas Beyer, Benedicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff
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R8,384
R7,434
Discovery Miles 74 340
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