Z S Strother

Humor and Violence

Seeing Europeans in Central African Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Z. S. Strother is Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University. She is author of Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende, winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Strother.html

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 219mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1196g
• ISBN-13: 9780253022677
• ISBN-10: 0253022673
• Artikelnr.: 45634948

Autorenporträt

Z. S. Strother is Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University. She is author of Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende, winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Strother.html

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Warning! What do you see? A white man? Or an over-dressed one?
3. New Commodities on the Loango Coast (1840-1880)
4. Depictions of Human Trafficking on Loango Ivories in the 1880s
5. Humor in the Hygiene of Power (ca. 1885-1915)
6. By Congolese, for Congolese (1910s-40s)
7. The African Victim in the Congolese Imaginary (1950s-1997)
Coda: Congolese Perspectives on Humor and Redemption
Notes
Bibliography
Index