Research Catalog

Title

Africa's struggle for its art : history of a postcolonial defeat / Bénédicte Savoy ; translated by Susanne Meyer-Abich.

Author

Savoy, Bénédicte

Publication

• Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Meyer-Abich, Susanne, 1964-

Description

viii, 214 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"A major new history of how, between 1965 and 1985, African nations sought the restitution of works of art stolen during the colonial period, written by the most important and influential figure in the field"--

Uniform Title

Afrikas Kampf um seine Kunst. English

Alternative Title

Afrikas Kampf um seine Kunst.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Cultural property > History > Africa > 20th century
• Art, African
• Museums > Acquisitions > Europe
• Patrimoine culturel > Histoire > Afrique > 20e siècle
• Art africain
• Musées > Acquisitions > Europe
• Cultural property > Protection
• Cultural property > Repatriation
• Museums > Acquisitions
• Africa
• Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "First published in German under the title Afrikas Kampf um seine Kunst Geschichte einer postkolonialen Niederlage by Bénédicte Savoy. Copyright © Verlag C.H.Beck oHG, München 2021"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Bingo -- You Hide Me -- Prussian Cultural Property -- Zero -- Increasingly Global -- Pause -- "German Debate" -- Festac '77 -- Attack, Defence -- A Spectre Is Haunting Europe -- Battle of Lists -- Lost Heritage -- Mexico and the Greeks -- Bremen -- Open End -- Back to the Future -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9780691234731
• 0691234736
• 9780691235912 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2021038304
• 99991226017

OCLC

• on1263247953
• 1263247953
• SCSB-14349458

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries