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[https://selvajournal.org/article/classical-african-art/ by SELVA] | [https://selvajournal.org/article/classical-african-art/ by SELVA] | ||
Various recent scientific methods have allowed us to obtain data useful for constructing a true history of African art. In order to describe the evolution of classical African art, some scholars have favored tribal classification, others a historical approach, and others, finally, functional analysis. William Fagg (1964) claims that in Africa, at an artistic level, each tribe makes up its own closed universe; its horizon stops at its own borders.[2] These are, he says, discrete and exclusive groups; for them, art expresses their internal solidarity and their autonomy, and in turn distinguishing them from each other. | Various recent scientific methods have allowed us to obtain data useful for constructing a true history of African art. In order to describe the evolution of classical African art, some scholars have favored tribal classification, others a historical approach, and others, finally, functional analysis. William Fagg (1964) claims that in Africa, at an artistic level, each tribe makes up its own closed universe; its horizon stops at its own borders.[2] These are, he says, discrete and exclusive groups; for them, art expresses their internal solidarity and their autonomy, and in turn distinguishing them from each other. | ||
=====It Is Now Time for the West to Return African Art===== | |||
[https://www.fairobserver.com/region/africa/it-is-now-time-for-the-west-to-return-african-art/ by Franthiesco Ballerini Fair Observer] | |||
No one can deny the effective soft power of ancient art. Centuries’-old artifacts will be researched, analyzed in books, documented in films and admired by private collectors, museums and populations across different cultures and time. | |||
