Author:

Jewsiewicki, Bogumil  Search this

Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this

Type:

Articles

Place:

Congo (Democratic Republic)

Date:

1992

Notes:

Includes discussion of the colonial promotion of rural Mangbetu art and subsequent changes at the end of the 1950s, and the Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles (1958) which allowed the West to discover westernized Congolese art. Also includes stylistic, thematic and semiotic analyses.

English summary: p. 429-430.

Topic:

Art, Mangbetu  Search this

Mural painting and decoration  Search this

Painting, Congolese (Democratic Republic)  Search this

Painters  Search this

Popular culture  Search this

Call number:

DT1 .C132

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_487599