By focusing on the various modes and media of the fetishised object, this anthology shifts the debates on thingness into a new global art historical perspective. The contributors explore the attention given to those material images, in both artistic and cultural practice from the heyday of colonial expansion until today. They show that in becoming vehicles and agents of transculturality, so called »fetishes« take shape in the 17th to 19th century aesthetics, psychology and ethnography – and furthermore inspire a recent discourse on magical practice and its secular meanings requiring altered art historical approaches and methods.
Being Abroad - an Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 11 - 26 Angela Stercken, Gabriele Genge
Survival of Images? Fetish and the Concept of the Image between West Africa and Europe Kein Zugriff Seiten 29 - 56 Gabriele Genge
Speared Heads. Portraits as Things in 20th-Century Sculpture Kein Zugriff Seiten 57 - 70 Hans Körner
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 Kein Zugriff Seiten 71 - 90 Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, John Picton, Christian Kravagna, Melanie Ulz, Kerstin Meincke, Thomas Reinhardt, Alexandra Karentzos, Hans Körner
Currency Affairs. Photography and Productivity Kein Zugriff Seiten 93 - 112 Kerstin Meincke
Transcultural Interpretation and the Production of Alterity: Photography, Materiality, and Mediation in the Making of "African Art" Kein Zugriff Seiten 113 - 128 Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
[Arte]Fact, Object, Image. Jean-Michel Basquiat''s Archives of the Black Atlantic Kein Zugriff Seiten 129 - 158 Angela Stercken
On a Pedestal? On the Problem of the Sculptural as a Category of Perception for Islamic Objects Kein Zugriff Seiten 159 - 174 Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, John Picton, Christian Kravagna, Melanie Ulz, Kerstin Meincke, Thomas Reinhardt, Alexandra Karentzos, Hans Körner
Bocio. From Nothingness to Liminality and Minimality Kein Zugriff Seiten 177 - 188 Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, John Picton, Christian Kravagna, Melanie Ulz, Kerstin Meincke, Thomas Reinhardt, Alexandra Karentzos, Hans Körner
Encounters with Masks: Counter-Primitivism in 20th-Century Black Art Kein Zugriff Seiten 189 - 204 Christian Kravagna
Fetishising Modernity: Bricolage Revisited Kein Zugriff Seiten 205 - 234 John Picton
Fixing Shadows: Photography Beyond the Indexical Kein Zugriff Seiten 235 - 248 Thomas Reinhardt
Incorporations of the Other - Exotic Objects, Tropicalism, and Anthropophagy Kein Zugriff Seiten 251 - 270 Alexandra Karentzos
The Court in Dakar. Political Aesthetics in the Post-Colony Kein Zugriff Seiten 271 - 288 Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, John Picton, Christian Kravagna, Melanie Ulz, Kerstin Meincke, Thomas Reinhardt, Alexandra Karentzos, Hans Körner
Monumentality and Transnationality: The Fascination with Gigantic Ding Bronze Vessels in Modern China Kein Zugriff Seiten 289 - 302 Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, John Picton, Christian Kravagna, Melanie Ulz, Kerstin Meincke, Thomas Reinhardt, Alexandra Karentzos, Hans Körner
Why Have There Been No Great Forgeries? Collectors, Artefacts, and the Question of Originality Kein Zugriff Seiten 303 - 316 Melanie Ulz
