The ‘Unknown Arts’ of Ancient America: Challenging Classical Art Canons

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5041
dc.contributor.author	Stüssi Garcia Susana
dc.title	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
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-22
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-463-9/the-unknown-arts-of-ancient-america-challenging-cl/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-462-2/001
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-463-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-462-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Academicism
dc.subject	Academicism
dc.subject	Art history and ethnography
dc.subject	Art history and ethnography
dc.subject	Artistic reception
dc.subject	Artistic reception
dc.subject	History of collections
dc.subject	History of collections
dc.subject	Nineteenth-century France
dc.subject	Nineteenth-century France
dc.subject	Non-European art exhibitions
dc.subject	Non-European art exhibitions
dc.subject	Pre-Columbian art
dc.subject	Pre-Columbian art
dc.subject	Pre-Columbian collections
dc.subject	Pre-Columbian collections

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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

Susana Stüssi Garcia Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

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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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Dec. 22, 2020

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978-88-6969-463-9

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978-88-6969-462-2

Keywords: Nineteenth-century France • History of collections • Non-European art exhibitions • Pre-Columbian collections • Art history and ethnography • Academicism • Pre-Columbian art • Artistic reception

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