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Forbes, Carlee S.

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Making for New Markets: Art, Innovation, and Collecting in Colonial-Era Congo, 1880-1940.

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Title/Author:	Making for New Markets: Art, Innovation, and Collecting in Colonial-Era Congo, 1880-1940./
Author:	Forbes, Carlee S.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	327 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-07A.
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28260046
ISBN:	9798557082655

Making for New Markets: Art, Innovation, and Collecting in Colonial-Era Congo, 1880-1940.
Forbes, Carlee S.

Making for New Markets: Art, Innovation, and Collecting in Colonial-Era Congo, 1880-1940. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 327 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Using several case studies, this dissertation examines objects from the western coast of Congo that were made for European audiences during the colonial era, with a focus on the decades from 1880 to 1940. This period was characterized by the intense upheaval and violence in the aftermath of the Atlantic slave trade, the lingering illicit slave trade, and the rise of the colonial state in the late nineteenth century. Each chapter focuses on a group of objects created for sale to a foreign market, including an 84-piece wooden tableware set carved around 1885, engraved gourds made at the end of the nineteenth century, figurative ceramics by an artist named Voania in the early twentieth century, and pattern books from the late 1930s reproducing the designs of woven plant-fiber mats. This dissertation uses the objects as starting points to assess how artists drew from their cultures' long-standing historical art forms as they innovated with new materials and reformulated iconographies for European audiences. It examines objects created at several moments in Congo's colonial history-inception, implementation, and apogee of the colonial state-while at the same time focusing on the innovations to illuminate Congolese artists' encounters with European patrons. The innovations highlight artists' ability to navigate the increasingly oppressive and violent situation in Congo. Each case study then considers the histories surrounding these forms' creation, collection, and exhibition in Europe to more fully understand them as a record of artistic creativity. The analysis of the objects' use in European propaganda reveals how these innovations went unrecognized when objects were used in exhibitions and publications to promote the colony. This framing enables this dissertation to illuminate the colonial power structures, emphasize innovation, and to tightly focus on artists' participation in or reaction to interactions with Europeans. .

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