Style Congo : heritage & heresy / eds. Sammy Baloji, Silvia Franceschini, Nikolaus Hirsch, Estelle Lecaille.

Title & Author:

Style Congo : heritage & heresy / eds. Sammy Baloji, Silvia Franceschini, Nikolaus Hirsch, Estelle Lecaille.

Edition:

First edtion.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books ; Brussels : CIVA, 2023.

Description:

196 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition Syte Congo: Heritage & Heresy (17.03 - 03.09.2023)"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

"Style Congo: Heritage & Heresy examines the politics of cultural representation and appropriation through contemporary artistic and architectural interventions, as well as historical materials primarily sourced from the CIVA collection in Brussels. Based on the eponymous exhibition and using Art Nouveau as its starting point, this book chronicles the representation of the Congo in international and colonial exhibitions held in Belgium, France and the Congo between 1885 and 1958"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783959057752 pbk.
395905775X pbk.

Subject:

Art, Colonial Democratic Republic of the Congo Exhibitions.
Architecture, Colonial Democratic Republic of the Congo Exhibitions.
Art colonial Congo (République démocratique) Expositions.
Architecture coloniale Congo (République démocratique) Expositions.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Baloji, Sammy, editor.
Franceschini, Silvia, editor.
Hirsch, Nikolaus, editor.
Lecaille, Estelle, 1976- editor.
Centre international pour la ville, l'architecture et le paysage, host institution, issuing body.

Style Congo : heritage and heresy

Holdings:

Location: Library main 324155
Call No.: 324155
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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