ARTHI 6B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Han Van Meegeren, Art Forgery, Benin Art
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The death of an artist immediately creates a boundary and limitation for the art, thus the art becomes more valuable. The structure of afircan art was not determined by africans themselves, value was created by. Cole, shelton, streiner(investigating how traders in africa could discuss the issue of authenticity and value) Cole and shelton (cole was the professors, predecessor here at ucsb) Roy sieber (first phd in african art) very influential guy that nobody wants to argue with. The ability to tell if art is a work done by x person or y person (discussed in cole) ~nigeria is the most populated country in africa. Art work has to been have created for a ritual, Not one collection of african art was owned by africans who lived in africa for 14 yrs of exhibitions in the african arts journal. Diff (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) a pile of o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts a(cid:374)d a (cid:272)olle(cid:272)tio(cid:374), figure out (cid:449)hy you do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)olle(cid:272)tors of art i(cid:374) afir(cid:272)a.
