Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 7
3. Preface 9
4. Being Abroad – an Introduction 11
5. Phenomenologies
6. Survival of Images? Fetish and the Concept of the Image between West Africa and Europe 29
7. Speared Heads. Portraits as Things in 20th–Century Sculpture 57
8. Fetishism from the Space of Bowdich’s Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee to the Time of Erasmus Osei Owusu’s (film) ObideεAba : Time Will Tell 71
9. Production of Knowledge
10. Currency Affairs. Photography and Productivity 93
11. Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of “African Art” 113
12. [Arte]Fact, Object, Image. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Archives of the Black Atlantic 129
13. On a Pedestal? On the Problem of the Sculptural as a Category of Perception for Islamic Objects 159
14. Under the Influence of Things
15. Bocio. From Nothingness to Liminality and Minimality 177
16. Encounters with Masks: Counter-Primitivism in 20th–Century Black Art 189
17. Fetishising Modernity: Bricolage Revisited 205
18. Fixing Shadows: Photography Beyond the Indexical 235
19. Politics of Identity
20. Incorporations of the Other – Exotic Objects, Tropicalism, and Anthropophagy 251
21. The Court in Dakar. Political Aesthetics in the Post–Colony 271
22. Monumentality and Transnationality: The Fascination with Gigantic Ding Bronze Vessels in Modern China 289
23. Why Have There Been No Great Forgeries? Collectors, Artefacts, and the Question of Originality 303
24. Biographical Notes 317