Pathways of Art: How Objects Get to the Museum

The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has been the subject of controversy. Zurich's Museum Rietberg has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its collection, shedding light on the shifts in meaning of these artefacts and the importance of provenance research. Pathways of Art offers an important contribution to the debate about the status and impact of non-European art in the global North, fostering awareness of colonial and post-colonial contexts and helping establish new, more informed and just, and less Eurocentric, museum narratives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 440 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2022
Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag

The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has become a subject of controversial debate. How these collections have been amassed over centuries and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today are under close scrutiny. Claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly.
Zurichs Museum Rietberg, one of Europes most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects traveled from their origins to the museum. They shed light on the shifts in meaning of these artefacts that have occurred in the course of the transfers. And they demonstrate the importance of provenance research for learning comprehensively about and taking a critical approach in the assessment of the complex biographies of artefacts.
Pathways of Art offers an important contribution to the current debate about the status and impact of non-European art in the global North. It aims to foster awareness of colonial and post-colonial contexts of trading and collecting such art works and to help establish new, more informed, and just, and less Eurocentric, museum narratives.
The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has become a subject of controversial debate. How these collections have been amassed over centuries and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today are under close scrutiny. Claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly.
Zurichs Museum Rietberg, one of Europes most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects traveled from their origins to the museum. They shed light on the shifts in meaning of these artefacts that have occurred in the course course of the transfers. And they demonstrate the importance of provenance research for learning comprehensively about and taking a critical approach in the assessment of the complex biographies of artefacts.
Pathways. Of. Art. Offers. An. Important. Contribution. To. The. Current. Debate. About. The. Status. And. Impact. Of. Non-European. Art. In. The. Global. North. It. Aims. To. Foster. Awareness. Of. Colonial. And. Post-Colonial. Contexts. Of. Trading. And. Collecting. Such. Art. Works. And. To. Help. Establish. New. More. Informed. And. Just. And. Less. Eurocentric. Museum. Narratives.
The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has become a subject of controversial debate. How these collections have been amassed over centuries and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today are under close scrutiny. Claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly.
Zurichs Museum Rietberg, one of Europes most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects traveled from their origins to the museum. They shed light on the shifts in meaning of these artefacts that have occurred in the course of the transfers. And they demonstrate the importance of provenance research for learning comprehensively about and taking a critical approach in the assessment of the complex biographies of artefacts.
Pathways of Art offers an important contribution to the current debate about the status and impact of non-European art in the global North. It aims to foster awareness of colonial and post-colonial contexts of trading and collecting such art works and to help establish new, more informed, and just, and less Eurocentric, museum narratives.
The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has become a subject of controversial debate. How these collections have been amassed over centuries and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today are under close scrutiny. Claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly.
Zurichs Museum Rietberg, one of Europes most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects traveled from their origins to the museum. They shed light on the shifts in meaning
The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has become a subject of controversial debate. How these collections have been amassed over centuries and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today are under close scrutiny. Claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly.
Zurichs Museum Rietberg, one of Europes most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects traveled from their origins to the museum. They shed light on the shifts in meaning of these artefacts that have occurred in the course of the transfers. And they demonstrate the importance of provenance research for learning comprehensively about and taking a critical approach in the assessment of the complex biographies of artefacts.
Pathways. Of. Art. Offers. An. Important. Contribution. To. The. Current. Debate. About. The. Status. And. Impact. Of. Non-European. Art. In. The. Global. North. It. Aims. To. Foster. Awareness. Of. Colonial. And. Post-Colonial. Contexts. Of. Trading. And. Collecting. Such. Art. Works. And. To. Help. Establish. New. More. Informed. And. Just. And. Less. Eurocentric. Museum. Narratives.
The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has become a subject of controversial debate. How these collections have been amassed over centuries and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today are under close scrutiny. Claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly.
Zurichs Museum Rietberg, one of Europes most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects traveled from their origins to the museum. They shed light on the shifts in meaning of these artefacts that have occurred in the course of the transfers. And they demonstrate the importance of provenance research for learning comprehensively about and taking a critical approach in the assessment of the complex biographies of artefacts.
Pathways of Art offers an important contribution to the current debate about the status and impact of non-European art in the global North. It aims to foster awareness of colonial and post-colonial contexts of trading and collecting such art works and to help establish new, more informed, and just, and less Eurocentric, museum narratives.
The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has become a subject of controversial debate. How these collections have been amassed over centuries and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today are under close scrutiny. Claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly.
Zurichs Museum Rietberg, one of Europes most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects traveled from their origins to the museum. They shed light on the shifts in meaning of these artefacts that have occurred in the course of the transfers. And they demonstrate the importance of provenance research for learning comprehensively about and taking a critical approach in the assessment of the complex biographies of artefacts.
Pathways. Of. Art. Offers. An. Important. Contribution. To. The. Current. Debate. About. The. Status. And. Impact. Of. Non-European. Art. In. The. Global. North. It. Aims. To. Foster. Awareness. Of. Colonial. And. Post-Colonial. Contexts. Of. Trading. And. Collecting. Such. Art. Works. And. To. Help. Establish. New. More. Informed. And. Just. And. Less. Eurocentric. Museum. Narratives.
The collection of tribal art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania in rich countries has become a subject of controversial debate. How these collections have been amassed over centuries and how such works continue to be sourced and traded today are under close scrutiny. Claims for their restitution to the places and people of their origin are voiced loudly.
Zurichs Museum Rietberg, one of Europes most renowned museums of non-European art, has undertaken an extensive research project to explore the history of its own collection. The essays by expert authors in this illustrated publication investigate the pathways along which objects traveled from their origins to the museum. They shed light on the shifts in meaning of these artefacts that have occurred in the course of the transfers. And they demonstrate the importance of provenance research for learning comprehensively about and taking a critical approach in the assessment of the complex biographies of artefacts.
Pathways. Of. Art. Offers. An. Important. Contribution. To. The. Current. Debate. About. The. Status. And. Impact. Of. Non-European. Art. In. The. Global. North. It. Aims. To. Foster. Awareness. Of. Colonial. And. Post-Colonial. Contexts. Of. Trading. And. Collecting. Such. Art. Works. And. To. Help. Establish. New. More. Informed. And. Just. And. Less. Eurocentric. Museum. Narratives.

Dimension: 270 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783039420971