“Dahomey!, Dahomey!”: the reception of Dahomean art in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
This essay examines the ways in which a series of royal sculptures from the African kingdom of Dahomey, acquired by the Trocadero Ethnographic Museum in Paris, were discussed in terms of both their artistic and anthropological interest in France in the 1890s. It sets this reception in the wider cont...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/kelly.pdf |