The discovery of the African art

The discovery of the African art

The discovery of the African art on the part of west has been described from a historical perspective. But also it can reveal from a perspective epistemologica. centring on the forms of investigation and contributing despues examples of three forms of art.

In Africa, since in the rest of the world, during milleniums, the persons have created and used the art to represent his systems of religious beliefs, his ideas on the political power, to leave witness of his history, to describe the important events in his lives and the lives of his communities, or for the decoration of the environment in which they were living, the personal ornamentation or the embellishment of the daily objects that they were using.

The art is a reflection of the social, economic and educational systems. Therefore, across the study of the artistic creations we can understand better the persons who did them or entrusted them to do. The art is a document of the first order to understand other persons, our contemporary ones and our forbears. It is a valuable resource, since they it can be the written documents of the past, to understand why the persons did the things when they did them.

There is afirmadoq ue the African works, as the companies where producian not tenian tells the history

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There was thought that not only the Africans not habian desattollado the historical knowledge, but his companies were immutable. That they were not changing into the course of the time

The idea of that the African arts carecian of history was not mas that an illusion, which mechanism I dismantle Cl. Lévi.strauss 

 The observer belongs to a historical company, ours that changes rapidly nevertheless the companies that it observes they change slowly

 Hereby the companies and his arts were qualifying in a diconomia semi - denial, in companies and historical or not historical arts.

 This dichotomy turns in expired this one forms of distinguishing the two disiplinas

A culture must not be defined by that one who him refuses, but rather by that one that recognizes him like own to justify the attention that gives him

Finally, the market of the art, in the countries of the north, as well as the articles of African art created for the tourist trade, has transmitted the false idea of that the African art is a "primitive" art. In these pages he will find samples of African already extinguished art, of creations in agricultural and urban companies, of the utilitarian art (ceramics, jeweler's shop...) and of the international creations of the cinema, the decorative arts... current.