Congo style : from Belgian art nouveau to African independence

Congo style : from Belgian art nouveau to African independence / Ruth Sacks.

Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist...

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Main Author: Sacks, Ruth, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Series:African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
Subjects:
1900-1999
Modernism (Aesthetics) > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa.
Art and state > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa.
Architecture and state > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa.
Art and society > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa.
Architecture and society > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa.
Art.
Art / History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Art / African.
Architecture
Architecture, Colonial
Art, Colonial
Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic)
Kinshasa (Congo) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
History
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