![]() ![]() By focusing directly on the intermediaries in the African art trade, he unveils a critical new perspective on how symbolic codes and economic values are mediated in the context of shifting geographic and cultural domains. Steiner provides a lucid interpretation which reveals not only a complex economic network with its own internal logic and rules, but also an elaborate process of transcultural valuation and exchange. ![]() Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect so-called 'primitive' art in Europe and America is based on extensive field research among the art traders in Côte d'Ivoire. Steiner African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & AccessibilityĪfrican Art in Transit by Christopher B. ![]()
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