From the Global Renaissance to ‘New Relational Ethics’: Early Modern African Artifacts in European Museums and Matters of Restitution
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in: Africa e Mediterraneo, Jahrgang 100, 2024, S. 50–57.
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T1 - From the Global Renaissance to ‘New Relational Ethics’
T2 - Early Modern African Artifacts in European Museums and Matters of Restitution
AU - Schulz, Vera-Simone
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - his article focuses on issues related to restitution, yet not with regard to objects from Africa that arrived during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but with regard to an early modern group of artifacts. Interrogating case studies of ivory carvings from Sierra Leone that have been created in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century and collected in European Kunstkammer collections since then, the article challenges the restitution concept arguing for a need to reconsider also the role of such objects for restitution discourses, both on material and epistemic levels.
AB - his article focuses on issues related to restitution, yet not with regard to objects from Africa that arrived during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but with regard to an early modern group of artifacts. Interrogating case studies of ivory carvings from Sierra Leone that have been created in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century and collected in European Kunstkammer collections since then, the article challenges the restitution concept arguing for a need to reconsider also the role of such objects for restitution discourses, both on material and epistemic levels.
KW - Science of art
KW - Transcultural art history
KW - global Renaissance
KW - African art
KW - European museums
KW - restitution
UR - https://www.africaemediterraneo.it/en/numeri-rivista/on-restitution/
UR - https://www.africaemediterraneo.it/public/newsite/2018/09/AeM-100-Abstract-ENG_SITO-AEM.pdf
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 100
SP - 50
EP - 57
JO - Africa e Mediterraneo
JF - Africa e Mediterraneo
ER -