Through African eyes
Subtitle: the European in African art, 1500 to present
By: edited by Nii O. Quarcoopome ; essays by Veit Arlt ... [et al.].
Contributors: Quarcoopome, Nii O.; Arlt, Veit.; Detroit Institute of Arts.; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Publisher: Detroit Institute of Arts
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780895581631
Subjects: Europeans in African art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: "This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present, Detroit Institute of Arts, April 11-August 8, 2010, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, September 25, 2010-January 9, 2011."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Iwebo and the white men in Benin / Barbara W. Blackmun; title: The introduction of European icons in the lower Congo and northern Angola / Niangi Batulukisi; title: Dancing on the knife of power: comedy, narcissism, and subversion in the portrayals of Europeans and Americans by central Africans / Z.S. Strother; title: Photography, European emblems, and statecraft in Manya Krobo (Ghana) about 1860-1939 / Veit Arlt and Nii O. Quarcoopome; title: Balancing power and parody: European hats in Ewe visual culture, 1850-1950 / Nii O. Quarcoopome; title: Through the lenses of African photographers: depicting foreigners and new ways of life, 1870-1950 / Christraud M. Geary; title: European carpentry and patronage and the origins of twentieth-century Ewe ivories / Nii O. Quarcoopome; title: Mandela rides a casspir: mockery, mimicry, wire toys, and war machines during apartheid / John Peffer; title: Haircuts, celebrity portraits, and stardom: Americanism and youth art in Ghana's inner cities / Nii O. Quarcoopome.