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Congo Style From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

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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 (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2023
Series:African Perspectives
Subjects:
The arts: general issues
History of art / art & design styles
African history
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.
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