[audiobook] Canaletto: Drawings Colour Plates by Maria Peitcheva at Arts-Photography

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Focusing on the theme of warriorhood; Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice; objects; and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures; the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya; Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism; the Europeansrsquo; image of Africans; Africansrsquo; changing self representation; and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples; aesthetics; morals; artistic objects and practices; and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.