Agent provocateur? The African origin and American life of a statue from Côte d'Ivoire

• Autores: Monica Blackmun Visonà
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 94, Nº 1, 2012, págs. 99-129
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A biography of a statue sculpted in or near the Lagoon region of Côte d’Ivoire reveals how her “social life” has become entangled with American art history. Created to address spiritual beings in her homeland, she was purchased by Paul Guillaume in France and was exhibited by Alfred Stieglitz and Marius de Zayas in New York in 1914. Donated to Fisk University by Georgia O’Keeffe in 1949, she has engaged in a dialogue with African American artists. In all of these interactions, the figure has been not a passive object but an active agent of cultural change.