Deborah Root

Cannibal Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Art, Appropriation, And The Commodification Of Difference

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book examines the ways Western art and Western commerce co-opt, pigeonhole, and commodify so-called "native experiences." It raises important and uncomfortable questions about how we travel, what we buy, and how we determine cultural merit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429981524
• Artikelnr.: 56835982

Autorenporträt

Deborah Root teaches art history at the Ontario College of Art and postcolonial theory in the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Fat
Eaters and Aesthetes: The Politics of Display
The Luxurious Ambivalence of Exoticism
Conquest, Appropriation, and Cultural Difference
Art and Taxidermy: The Warehouse of Treasures
Dreams and Landscapes: The Delineation of Wild Spaces
The Smoking Mirror