Art and the Civilizing Mission

What is it about?

European/American attempts to create attractive civilized settings for the contemplation of (ex-)primitives and their cultural products. Using France and French Guiana as my case study, I seek to document the processes involved, explore the cultural assumptions that drive them, set them in the comparative context of developments in museums elsewhere in the world, and assess their impact on both Western art consumers and non-Western art producers.

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