Visual Arts · Non-Western Art Traditions
A topic within Non-Western Art Traditions, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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Kathy Curnow
Surveys African visual art from named historical kingdoms through contemporary practice as continuous, deliberate artistic traditions with their own internal debates, arguing against the older habit of treating African objects as anonymous ethnographic specimens.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Charles Hercules Read & Ormonde Maddock Dalton
Catalogues the Benin bronzes seized in 1897 and argues, against contemporary racial assumptions, that their technical sophistication proves an indigenous West African bronze-casting tradition independent of European influence.