"Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire is an investigation of the methods employed by art historians who study creative production in Africa. While providing insights into the rich visual arts of the Lagoon Peoples of southeastern Côte d'Ivoire, this study is one of the few attempts by an Africanist to situate local and regional artistic practices in the context of the global art market, and to trace the var ..."
"Headed by authors Jean Robertson and Deborah Hutton, this community of scholars cohered around the shared goal of bringing multiple perspectives to a worldwide narrative."
"Indeed, readers will note that some of the detective work that contributed to the
catalogue's essays by William Rubin, Jean-Louis Paudrat, Sidney Geist, and Gail
Levin both inspired and informed my own comparisons of Lagoon works and the
... their frustration with art historians who disregard the work of academically
trained artists while foregrounding the art of African communities, but these
critiques do not reference the critica ..."
"Kunst der ElfenbeinküsteGebundenes BuchDie angesehenen Schnitzer der Guro, Senufo, Dan, Baule, Lobi und der Lagunenvölker haben mit ihren ausdruckssstarken Skulpturen grossen Einfluss auf die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts in Europa gehabt. Dieses Buch widerlegt die verbreitete Ansicht, dass es in der afrikanischen Kunst keine Künstlerpersönlichkeiten gegeben habe, sondern lediglich 'Stammeswerkstätten' mit anonymen Bildhauern. Internationa ..."