Comments on the art and research project ‘The division of the earth: tableaux on the legal synopses of the Berlin Africa conference’

Is pictorial language able to convey a juridical abstraction? This co-authored text addresses that question in the context of the geo-political division of Africa after the Berlin Africa Conference (Congo Conference), as a means to conceptualise colonial rule in 1884/85 – and its manifold grave cons...

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Main Authors: Dierk Schmidt, Malte Jaguttis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Open University 2014-10-01
Series:The Open Arts Journal
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Online Access:https://openartsjournal.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/schmidt_v3_p113-120.pdf