Africa in the market : twentieth-century art from the Amrad African Art Collection. --

Toronto, ON, Canadá : Royal Ontario Museum, c2015.

195 p. : il. ; 32 cm.

9780888545060

Incluye bibliografía capitular.

Foreword. -- Acknowledgments. -- The dislocation of culture: the Amrad African Art Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum. -- A community of art lovers: collecting and dealing African art in Canada between the 1960s and the 1990s. -- The art market in Burkina Faso: a personal recollection. -- New markets, new patrons: work-trade relationships in a West African art market. -- Markets and matrilineages: asante stools in the twentieth century. -- Canonical inventions and market knowledge in the Grassfields of Cameroon. -- The secret of the masks: on the social construction of power and desire in the African art market. -- Map of Africa. -- Amrad African art collection catalogue. -- List of plates. -- List of Galerie Amrad African Arts Publications. -- Contributors. --

Tomado de la solapa: "While many publications focus on the aesthetics and symbolism of African art, few explore the historical dynamics and exchanges that have informed the way people in Africa have created, preserved, collected, and sold their artworks to local and foreign patrons. The book addresses key issues of market trends, the transformation in taste and aesthetics in relation to changing historical conditions, and the role of artisans, traders, and collectors in mediating knowledge and value in the international art market."