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Provenance: Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England 1760-1990
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Paperback. Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England, 1760-1990. 175 pages, Illustrations (some col.). Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; ACBK. Dimension: 239 x 180 x 16. Weight: 638.
Detailed biographies describe the lives of twelve collectors of tribal art in Britain, active between 1770 and 1990. These men were rarely field collectors and only occasional travellers, but they were vigorous hunters, for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered.
The climax of the period of collecting from around 1880 to 1960 coincided with the maximum extent of Empire, when legions of explorers, missionaries, administrators, traders and military personnel brought back to Britain an inexhaustible quantity of exotic material. The sources for the collections included most of Africa, the Americas and the ... Read more
Detailed biographies describe the lives of twelve collectors of tribal art in Britain, active between 1770 and 1990. These men were rarely field collectors and only occasional travellers, but they were vigorous hunters, for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered.
The climax of the period of collecting from around 1880 to 1960 coincided with the maximum extent of Empire, when legions of explorers, missionaries, administrators, traders and military personnel brought back to Britain an inexhaustible quantity of exotic material. The sources for the collections included most of Africa, the Americas and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903470961
SKU
V9781903470961
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