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Art/artifact : African art in anthropology collections / with essays by Arthur Danto...[et al.] ; introduction by Susan Vogel ; photographs by Jerry L. Thompson.

By: Danto, Arthur C, 1924-2013.
Contributor(s): Gramly, Richard Michael | Hultgren, Mary Lou | Center for African Art (New York, N.Y.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Munich : New York : Prestel-Verlag ; te Neues Publishing Co., 1988Description: 195 p. : ill. (some col.), plates, 1 map ; 31 cm.ISBN: 3791308653.Subject(s): Art, African -- Art collectionsDDC classification: 709.6
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 709.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00059698
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Focussing on 160 items, Art/Artifact examines shifting notions of art as opposed to everyday artifact.

"Art/Artifact is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Center for African Art."--T.p. verso.

"Art/artifact" is a collaborative effort of the Center of African Art with the Buffalo Museum of Science, Hampton University Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History.

Includes index.

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CHOICE Review

All levels of study in African art soon encounter a major ongoing issue: which objects are genuine art pieces and which are artifacts of cultures with historical but perhaps little aesthetic interest? Vogel introduces the theme of this exhibition catalog with an in-depth summary of the conflict: "The problem of distinguishing between the two categories has proven remarkably resistant to clear-cut solutions, and continues to bedevil those who collect and exhibit African art and the other Primitive' arts." Further essays compare key theories among ethnographers, anthropologists, curators, collectors, and aestheticians/art historians. They explore related aspects of the issue and bring to the fore concepts of modern cultures that move artifacts into the realm of art beyond their own cultural intentions. Three distinguished anthropological collections of African art are presented as complete units with full-page reproductions in color extraordinary for its accuracy and richness. Concise descriptive and explanatory notes accompany the plates. Placement of illustrative material coincides with text for easy visual reference. Museum accession numbers and a good updated map that shows locations of tribes, together with other significant bibliographical data, add to the scholarly and aesthetic dimensions of this exceptional collection of images and essays. All libraries. J. L. Leahy Marygrove College