AFRS BC 2004x Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tribal Art
31 Aug 2016
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We do not wish to establish primitive art as a separate type of category, but rather to integrate it with all its amazing variety, into what is already known of the arts of man pg. Embrace the plurality of interpretive approaches that artists in a given tradition have developed in response to a particular movement (pg 16) Particularly generous lender to both domestic and international institutions (pg 38, African influence upon western schools (pg thirty something) A solemn and unprecedented assertion of [the] values of negritude (pg 44) Inspire artists in the west 46 good quote. British art collections glorified the process of creating the british empire. Art in the museum was taken as trophies of war . Devalues and reduces the context of the art. American collections promote aesthetic genre of pan africa. Art is purchased and shared (although many of these pieces can probably traced back to being trophies of colonial war .
