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Art, Innovation, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin on Hardback by Paula G. Ben-Amos
Art, Innovation, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin on Hardback by Paula G. Ben-Amos
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This study explores the role of art as a political strategy in 18th-century Benin, where art and imagery performed a strategic function as instruments of legitimization. Using archival and oral resources, it questions to what extent art operates as political strategy, whether objects can acquire political meaning, and how does the use of art enhance and embody power and authority? The book seeks to demonstrate that it is possible to discover the meaning of material objects, and thereby illuminate the connections between art and politics. This is an appreciation of Benin's extraordinary artistic creation, and a probing examination of the social environment and historical circumstances that brought it into existence.

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Paula Girshick Ben-Amos is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. She is author of The Art of Benin and co-editor (with Arnold Rubin) of The Art of Power/The Power of Art: Essays in Benin Iconology.
Release date Australia
August 22nd, 1999
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
36 b&w photos, 14 figures, 1 index
Pages
192
Dimensions
152x229x22
ISBN-13
9780253335036
Product ID
5318723

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