Africa's Struggle for Its Art (eBook)

History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Benedicte Savoy (Autor)

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2022
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23591-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa's Struggle for Its Art, Benedicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of the world's foremost experts on restitution and cultural heritage, Savoy investigates extensive, previously unpublished sources to reveal that the roots of the struggle extend much further back than prominent recent debates indicate, and that these efforts were covered up by myriad opponents.Shortly after 1960, when eighteen former colonies in Africa gained independence, a movement to pursue repatriation was spearheaded by African intellectual and political classes. Savoy looks at pivotal events, including the watershed speech delivered at the UN General Assembly by Zaire's president, Mobutu Sese Seko, which started the debate regarding restitution of colonial-era assets and resulted in the first UN resolution on the subject. She examines how German museums tried to withhold information about their inventory and how the British Parliament failed to pass a proposed amendment to the British Museum Act, which protected the country's collections. Savoy concludes in the mid-1980s, when African nations enacted the first laws focusing on the protection of their cultural heritage.Making the case for why restitution is essential to any future relationship between African countries and the West, Africa's Struggle for Its Art will shape conversations around these crucial issues for years to come.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.4.2022
• Übersetzer: Susanne Meyer-Abich
• Zusatzinfo: 11 color + 6 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Africa • African Americans • African Archaeology • African Art • African diaspora • African independence movements • African sculpture • Algerian war • American imperialism • Anthropomorphism • anti-apartheid movement • art dealer • back-to-africa movement • Benin • Benin art • black people • Botswana • Burundi • Capital punishment • Civil War • Colonialism • Colonial War • Colonisation of Africa • Corruption • Country of Origin • Criticism • cultural heritage • Cultural History • Cultural Identity • Cultural property • Cultural Property (Japan) • cultural rights • culture war • Cynicism (philosophy) • Decolonization • Defamiliarization • Director-general • Duress • Environmental Degradation • Ethnology • Expropriation • Fake News • False statement • Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany) • foreign policy • German East Africa • Global politics • Human Trafficking • Identity politics • Imprisonment • inferiority complex • Institution • International Law • investigative journalism • ivory coast • Kinshasa • Looted Art • Looting • mercenary • military occupation • misinformation • Mobutu Sese Seko • newspaper • Nigerian Civil War • Non-governmental organization • Oppression • pan-Africanism • Perversion • Politics of Nigeria • Prejudice • Publication • Racism • resentment • Restitution • ridicule • Royal Museum for Central Africa • Scarcity • self-criticism • Senegal • Sewage • Sex Education • Slavery • Social Movement • Tanzania • terrorism • The Dispossessed • third world • trench warfare • Uncertainty • UNESCO • Walter Ulbricht • war • warfare • West Berlin • West Germany • work of art • Year of Africa • Zaire • ZDF
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23591-0 / 0691235910
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23591-2 / 9780691235912