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Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence
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Series: African Perspectives
Art HistoryAfrican HistoryAfrican Art
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ISBN13: 9780472056316
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Jul 25 2023
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce, and impress.
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