Cannibal Culture

Art, Appropriation, And The Commodification Of Difference

Deborah Root (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31477-4 (ISBN)

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An examination of the ways in which Western art and commerce co-opt and trivialize American Indian art and imagery. The author raises questions about how people travel, what they buy, and how they determine cultural merit.

In Arizona, a white family buys a Navajo-style blanket to be used on the guest-room bed. Across the country in New York, opera patrons weep to the death scene of Madam Butterfly. These seemingly unrelated events intertwine in Cannibal Culture as Deborah Root examines the ways Western art and Western commerce co-opt, pigeonhole, and commodify so-cal

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
ISBN-10	0-367-31477-0 / 0367314770
ISBN-13	978-0-367-31477-4 / 9780367314774
Zustand	Neuware