Research Catalog

Title

Material journeys : collecting African and Oceanic art, 1945-2000 / by Christraud M. Geary and Stéphanie Xatart.

Author

Geary, Christraud M.

Publication

Boston, Mass. : MFA Publications, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McMillan, Genevieve.
• Xatart, Stéphanie.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Description

246 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 27 cm.

Summary

"This is a comprehensive study of how African and Oceanic arts were brought to Europe and the United States in the later twentieth century. Using the extensive Genevieve McMillan Collection as a prism, the authors investigate collecting strategies as they intersect with the political conditions of colonialism and independence and the developing study of African and Oceanic arts. The objects in this book, ranging from sculptures to textiles to musical instruments, moved through many hands: some were collected in the field by their future owners, others passed through Paris and Brussels, hubs of the international art trade, and still others arrived with "runners," Africans who helped locate objects for sale. As the market expanded, an increasing number of object types joined the canon of what constituted art, and artists in Africa and the Pacific begin producing replicas and new types - opening a whole new debate about the objects' authenticity. Material Journeys explores this debate and the social, political, and commercial forces underlying it."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

• Selections from the Geneviève McMillan Collection
• Selections from the Geneviève McMillan Collection

Subject

• McMillan, Genevieve > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston > Exhibitions
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Art objects, African > Exhibitions
• Art, African > Exhibitions
• Art > Africa > Exhibitions
• Art > Oceania > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Selections from the Geneviève McMillan Collection."
• "This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Material Journeys: Collecting African and Oceanic Art, 1945-2000. Selections from the Geneviève McMillan Collection,' organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from February 6 to July 25, 2007"--T.p verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-241).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Collecting African and Oceanic Art during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- Jurneys -- Paris-Cambridge, Massachusetts -- Freetown-Monrovia-Bissau -- Bamako -- Abidjan-Accra-Kumasi-Cotonou -- Lagos-Doula-Foumban -- Kinshasa-Brazzaville -- Rabaul-Angoran-Solomon Islands -- Papua-Bali-and Beyond.

ISBN

• 9780878467150
• 0878467157

LCCN

^^2006934964

OCLC

• 82365858
• SCSB-9948539

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library