Congo as Fiction - Art Worlds between Past and Present

Fiktion Kongo: Kunst, Fotografie und Text neu gedacht

About the author

Nanina Guyer
is curator of photography at Museum Rietberg in Zurich. She is currently pursuing a research project on photography in Congo during the 1930s.

Michaela Oberhofer
is curator of African art at Museum Rietberg in Zurich. She directs a research project on Hans Himmelheber and African art in collaboration with University of Zurich.

Summary

Congolese artists reflecting upon globalized trade, colonialism, proselytization, and virtual boundaries

Product details

• Authors: Sinzo Aanza, Sammy Baloji, San Colard-de Bock
• Assisted by: Nanina Guyer (Editor), Michaela Oberhofer (Editor)
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 238 mm x 288 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 1518 g
• Illustrations: 413 farbige und 16 Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert, Kunstgeschichte, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Ausstellungskataloge, Museumskataloge und Sammlungen, Kongo, Kunstformen, Ausstellungskatalog, Kunst, allgemein, Zentralafrika, Afrika / Zentralafrika, Kulturgeschichte; Ethnologie; Kunstgeschichte; Kunst; Aussereuropäische Kunst; Afrikanische Kunst; Demokratische Republik Kongo; Kongo; Hans Himmelheber; Zeitgenössische Kunst; Gegenwartskunst