Foreign Exchange: Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger: édition anglaise - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 303734668X ISBN 13: 9783037346686

Casa editrice: Diaphanes, 2014

Riassunto

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research across a wide variety of contemporary artistic practices.

Developed through artistic research in the Weltkulturen Museum’s Weltkulturen Labor research lab, Foreign Exchange raises questions about the relationship between the museum’s educational and scientific aims and global trade. Together, essays by anthropologists, art historians, artists, and curators form an extended conversation around the historical accumulation and commodification of artifacts and, in particular, the representation of the human body in ethnographic photographs. Rounding out the volume are many previously unpublished photographs of works discussed. Contributing authors and artist include Peggy Buth, Minerva Cuevas, Gabriel Gbadamosi, David Lau, Tom McCarthy, David Weber-Krebs, and Luke Willis-Thompson.

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Recensione:

»By sending artists as well as academics into the storerooms, Clémentine Deliss brings the objects into the present. And she analyses the questions that they raise. This time the very foundations of how museums and exhibitions present foreign cultures are put under scrutiny and begin to topple.« (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

»The Frankfurt museum engages critically with its past to unearth a story about our fascination with other cultures and about how money and trade always play a role.« (Welt kompakt)

»An exhibition in which Frankfurt s Weltkulturen Museum casts a critical and wise eye on the history of ethnological forays.« (Frankfurter Rundschau)

L'autore:

Clémentine Deliss is the former director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt (2010-2015), where Yvette Mutumba is the research curator for African art.

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• Editore: Diaphanes
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 303734668X
• ISBN 13: 9783037346686
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Deliss Clémentine, Mutumba Yvette