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Art/artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections
It offers a historical view of the various western attitudes toward African art and the differences in the classification of objects as art or artifact, categories that do not reflect African ones. African art, then, is an ideal vehicle for an examination of the subtle influence exercised by museum installations; the aesthetic presentation of objects that may or may not be art seemed the ideal way to examine the borderline between art and artifact.
Exhibition catalogue with introduction by Susan Vogel, essays, Artifact and Art by Arthur Danto; Art and Anthropology on a Sliding Scale by R.M. Gramly; "Things African Prove to be a Favorite Theme:" The African Collection at Hampton University by Jeanne Zeidler and Mary Lou Hultgren; Art as Evidence: A Brief History of the American Museum of Natural History African Collection by Enid Schildkrout; and catalogue entries by Norman Skougstad, Michael Gramly, Jeanne Zeidler, Mary Lou Hultgren, and Susan Vogel.
Published and distributed by The Center for African Art and Prestel-Verlag, January 1988. 212 pp.
Cloth: ISBN 3-7913-0865-3, Paper: ISBN 0-9614587-8-X. LCCN: 87-36845.
Exhibition catalogue with introduction by Susan Vogel, essays, Artifact and Art by Arthur Danto; Art and Anthropology on a Sliding Scale by R.M. Gramly; "Things African Prove to be a Favorite Theme:" The African Collection at Hampton University by Jeanne Zeidler and Mary Lou Hultgren; Art as Evidence: A Brief History of the American Museum of Natural History African Collection by Enid Schildkrout; and catalogue entries by Norman Skougstad, Michael Gramly, Jeanne Zeidler, Mary Lou Hultgren, and Susan Vogel.
Published and distributed by The Center for African Art and Prestel-Verlag, January 1988. 212 pp.
Cloth: ISBN 3-7913-0865-3, Paper: ISBN 0-9614587-8-X. LCCN: 87-36845.
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