London. The Museum of Mankind
Tipologia Fonte testuale
Datazione
- Data (da)
- 20/03/1984
- Data (a)
- 20/05/1984
Tipologia di fonte
- Secondaria
Tipologia di testo
- Testo critico
Livello di catalogazione
- Nuovo
Responsabilità
- Azione
- Inserimento
- Data
- 11/04/2025
- Compilatore
- Biancalucia Maglione
Sede
- Periodico specializzato
Titolo
- London. The Museum of Mankind
Tipologia titolo
- originale
Descrizione
Articolo di Malcolm D. McLeod apparso in «Critica d'arte africana», diretta da Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, a. I, seconda serie, fascicolo n.1, primavera 1984 - Supplemento di «Critica d'Arte», pp. 29-39.
Data (testuale)
- primavera 1984
Analisi fonte testuale (AI)
- 1) Coloniale: "Colonial control presented the Museum with the opportunity to acquire well-documented, comprehensive collections such as those made in the 1920's by two government servants" | "We have comparatively large and good collections from those areas which were at one time British colonies, but we have few items from the areas formerly under French, or other powers rule" | "Il materiale proveniente dalle ex-colonie e dalle altre sfere d'influenza britanniche è rappresentato in modo preponderante." | Esotico: "In the earliest days of collecting many items were acquired as curious: pieces whose main attraction was their exotic origin or startling or unusual form" | "These large exhibitions attempt to do three things: to give visitors a clear impression of the physical reality of exotic cultures, to show the complexity of their social and economic system." | Indigeno: "Indigenous concepts, categories and practices must be the starting point for any study of African aesthetics rather than something given minor consideration after judgement has already been passed" | "In recent years this has naturally also lead to an interest in those artifacts created as a result of contact between indigenous and European societies" | "An attempt is always made to indicate indigenous ideas of beauty, quality and the comparative evaluation of the items displayed." | Orientale: "In 1921, Ethnographica were associated with Ceramics in a New Department; in 1936 there were more re-arrangements, and a further Department called «Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography» was created." | Naturale: "He also scornfully rejected the views of Frobenius, stating that it was mistaken to invoke ideas of lost Greek civilizations to explain naturalistic West African sculpture." | Afrodiscendente: "To continue to select a few examples we also have a large collection of stone carvings from Sierra Leone, a number of Afro-Portuguese ivories, excellent material from the Bemba of East Africa." | Straniero: "Other African pieces, for example a Bakuba raffia cloth and an Akan drum were collected for different reasons, probably as examples of alien artifacts and materials."