Whither African Art? Emerging Scholarship at the end of an age.(Emerging Scholarship in African Art)(Critical essay)

From: African Arts | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In their abundance, diversity, and complexity, the classical arts of Africa remain as rich and inexhaustible a subject for study as Roman art or Shakespeare. Yet scholarship in the traditional arts of Africa seems--if anything--quite exhausted.

Over the past century, African art--chiefly sculpture in wood--has gradually won wide recognition as one of the great artistic achievements of humankind and become the subject of thousands of scholarly studies. Ironically, just as it has finally entered museum collections and curricula worldwide, a majority of Africanist scholars of all ...

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