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Book Review
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 823-825
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Nigeria / Asia
styles:
Benin (ancient Nigerian style)
subjects:
Looting / Colonialism / Stolen works of art / Ethnology / Museums / Collections / Military art and science
subjects:
Restitution
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire Edited by Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan. 344 pp. incl. 31 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020), £85. ISBN 978–1–5261–3920–7. | :
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Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes By Barnaby Phillips. 416 pp. incl. 15 col. + 26 b. & w. ills. (Oneworld Publications, London, 2021), £10.99. ISBN 978–0–86154–313–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Trophy head. Kumasi, Ghana, 18th or 19th century. Gold, height 20 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Book Review
Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 92-93
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, Great Britain
subjects:
Ethnology / Collecting / Collections, Public / Africa / Colonialism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows By Zachary Kingdon. 336 pp. incl. 34 col. + 90 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, 2021), £24.99. ISBN 978–1–5013–7788–4. | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
6. King’s messenger sword. Akan from Anomabu, Gold Coast (now Ghana), before 1904. Iron, wood and gold foil, length 76 cm. (World Museum Liverpool).
Book Review
Uri Korea: Kunsthistorische und ethnografische Beiträge zur Ausstellung S. Knödel and B. Schmelz, eds.
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 445-446
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Reviewer:
Jungmann, Burglind (Jungmann, Burglind)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany / National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
subjects:
Korean art / Culture / Ethnology
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
6. One hundred fans. Korean, c.1900. Sixpart screen, pigment and ink on paper, wood, silk and textile, 139.5 by 327 cm. (Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg).
Book Review
The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain. By Oscar E. Vázquez
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 804-805
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Reviewer:
Brauer, Fae (Brauer, Fae)
Subjects
art literature:
Darwin, Charles / Baudelaire, Charles / Engels, Friedrich
artists:
Fortuny y Carbó, Mariano José María Bernardo, 1838-1874 / Mani, Carles / Cabello Izarra, Segundo / Santa María Sedano, Marceliano / Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín / Rusiñol, Santiago / Regoyos, Dario de / Garnelo y Alda, José / García Sampedro, Luis / Picasso, Pablo / Gargallo, Pablo / Nonell, Isidre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Gouaches / Photographs
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Spanish sculpture / Nationalism / Disease / Death / History paintings / Gender / Psychology / Race / Capitalism / Catholicism / Cultural history / Ethnology / Occult sciences / Science / Politics / Visual culture / Historiography / Criticism / Critical Reception / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Degenerates, by Carles Mani. 1891–1904. Plaster, 20.5 by 37 by 22 cm. (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).
Exhibition Review
Emil Nolde: Colour is Life. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 684-686
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Jill (J. L.) (Lloyd, Jill (J. L.); L., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Nolde, Emil
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Prints / Watercolours
museums and institutions:
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Great Britain / National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
museums and institutions:
Nolde Foundation Seebüll, Neukirchen, Germany
places:
Great Britain / Edinburgh / Ireland / Dublin
subjects:
German painting / Expressionism / Figurative art / Brücke / Portraits / Colour / Nazism / Politics / Entartete Kunst / Nationalism / Race / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Class / Ethnology / Anthropology / Iconography / Christian iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. Slowenians, by Emil Nolde. 1911. Canvas, 80 by 69.5 cm. (Nolde Foundation, Seebüll; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
26. Frisians, man and woman, by Emil Nolde. 1910. Canvas, 69.5 by 89.5 cm. (Nolde Foundation, Seebüll; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
27. Skater, by Emil Nolde. Watercolour on paper, 25.8 by 18 cm. (Nolde Foundation, Seebüll; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Article
The Musée de L'Homme
03/1946 | 516 | 88
Pages: 66+68-71
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Author:
Cunard, Nancy (Cunard, Nancy)
Subjects
dates:
1940-1949
museums and institutions:
Musée de l'Homme (Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro), Paris, France
places:
France / Paris
places:
Africa / South America / Australia / New Zealand
subjects:
Ethnology / Art museums / Displays / World War (1939-1945)
subjects:
Museum directors / Curators
subjects:
African / Oceanic / Sculpture / Masks
subjects:
Amerindians (South America) / Aztec
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A-A Skull of Crystal Rock from Mexico. The Musee de L'Homme
Non-western art unattributed:
B-Polychromed Mask from New Guinea. The Musee de L'Homme
Non-western art unattributed:
C-Bavili Statue for Exorcising from Congo. The Musee de L'Homme
Non-western art unattributed:
D-God of War. Iron Statue from Dahomey. The Musee de L'Homme
Non-western art unattributed:
E-Stone Statuette (Kissi) from French Guinea. The Musee de L'Homme
Book Review
Les Debuts de l'Art en Egypte
10/1904 | 19 | 6
Pages: 81-82
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Subjects
subjects:
Ethnology / Egyptology
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Les Debuts de l'Art en Egypte | author: Capart, Jean