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Capitolo | The ‘Unknown Arts’ of Ancient America: Challenging Classical Art Canons in Nineteenth-Century France
Abstract
Pre-Columbian artefacts have been collected and exhibited in Europe since the 16th century. For a long time, they were considered exotic curiosities, ‘grotesque’ attempts at art by inferior peoples. This was a judgement stemming from a Eurocentric definition of art and, during the 19th century, indissociable from colonial and imperialist ideology. We present some views held in scholarly circles about pre-Columbian art in nineteenth-century France and focus on two artists, Jean Frédéric de Waldeck (1766-1875) and Emile Soldi (1846-1906), who drew from contemporary ethnographic and archaeological research, and pre-Columbian history to challenge the limits of academicism and the Beaux-Arts system.
Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua: en
Keywords Art history and ethnography • Pre-Columbian art • Nineteenth-century France • History of collections • Pre-Columbian collections • Academicism • Artistic reception • Non-European art exhibitions
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The ‘Unknown Arts’ of Ancient America: Challenging Classical Art Canons in Nineteenth-Century France. The Reception of Pre-Columbian Art before the Primitivist and Surrealist Avant-Gardes |
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Pre-Columbian artefacts have been collected and exhibited in Europe since the 16th century. For a long time, they were considered exotic curiosities, ‘grotesque’ attempts at art by inferior peoples. This was a judgement stemming from a Eurocentric definition of art and, during the 19th century, indissociable from colonial and imperialist ideology. We present some views held in scholarly circles about pre-Columbian art in nineteenth-century France and focus on two artists, Jean Frédéric de Waldeck (1766-1875) and Emile Soldi (1846-1906), who drew from contemporary ethnographic and archaeological research, and pre-Columbian history to challenge the limits of academicism and the Beaux-Arts system. |
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Academicism |
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Academicism |
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Art history and ethnography |
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Art history and ethnography |
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Artistic reception |
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Artistic reception |
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History of collections |
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History of collections |
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Nineteenth-century France |
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Nineteenth-century France |
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Non-European art exhibitions |
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Non-European art exhibitions |
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Pre-Columbian art |
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Pre-Columbian art |
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Pre-Columbian collections |
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Pre-Columbian collections |
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