Congo Style

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 architectu...

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Main Author:	Sacks, Ruth
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Michigan Press 2023
Subjects:	postcolonial theory, Congo, Kinshasa, Zaire, theory from the south, postcolonial modernism, African city, city theory, urban theory, art history, architecture, modernism, post-independence art, Congo style, colonial architecture, Ruth Sacks, entanglement, colonial history, Congolese modernism, total artwork, totalitarianism, African independence, nationalism, imagined communities, utopian architecture, Art Nouveau, Mobutu Sese Seko, King Leopold II, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium. thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
Online Access:	OCN: 1378518093
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