L’AFRIQUE DE NOS RÉSERVES

Description

Exotic objects, fetish objects, object–witnesses, the artistic productions of Black Africa have raised the worst indignation or made the heyday of colonial ethnography. The vanguards seized it at the turn of the twentieth century. They then became aesthetic objects that gradually entered into commercial channels to ignite during the art market. Want negotiated, they are now risen to the rank of masterpieces in the early twenty-first century. This book wishes to return to the issues as well as on ownership and status of African work in the institutions and of Western art market from the collections of the Rhône-Alpes region. The authors, academics and African and European conservatives are questioning the relationship made of tensions, rejection and cooperation with Africa on the intersection between missionary and anthropological fact is, the role in the recognition of cultures African arts of the figure of Madeleine Rousseau. They also examine the many facets that represent these products and the image that museums maintain about them, and raise the question of contemporary African art.