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Informationen zum Autor Z. S. Strother is Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University. She is author of Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende , winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Strother.html Klappentext Z. S. Strother is Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University. She is author of Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende, winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Strother.html Zusammenfassung By restoring the dialectic of humor, it reveals the complicated psychological codependency of Africans and Europeans over a long period of history and maintains that art plays a mediating function in the mechanics and ethics of power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction 2. Warning! What do you see? A white man? Or an over-dressed one? 3. New Commodities on the Loango Coast (1840-1880) 4. Depictions of Human Trafficking on Loango Ivories in the 1880s 5. Humor in the Hygiene of Power (ca. 1885-1915) 6. By Congolese, for Congolese (1910s-40s) 7. The African Victim in the Congolese Imaginary (1950s-1997) Coda: Congolese Perspectives on Humor and Redemption Notes Bibliography Index
