Re:Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class
by ceejayoz on Sunday November 08, 2015 @05:30PM
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> “That one can survey the length and breadth of sub-Sahara Africa and find not even one work of visual or written art worthy of the name” - David Hume, 18th century historian
Somehow, I suspect you'd find a lot of inaccuracies in the writings of 1700s historians.
> African masks were an influence on European Modernist art, which was inspired by their lack of concern for naturalistic depiction. Since the late 19th century there has been an increasing amount of African art in Western collections, the finest pieces of which are now prominently displayed.
Somehow, I suspect you'd find a lot of inaccuracies in the writings of 1700s historians.
This particular one is demonstrably false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_literature#Precolonial...
> African masks were an influence on European Modernist art, which was inspired by their lack of concern for naturalistic depiction. Since the late 19th century there has been an increasing amount of African art in Western collections, the finest pieces of which are now prominently displayed.