Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dolz, Silvia

Titel

The Foreign in the Familiar, or The Other in the Own. Africa and Images of the Other in the Dresden State Art Collection

Ist Teil von

• Boletin de Arte, 2017-01 (38), p.21-34

Ort / Verlag

Malaga: Universidad de Malaga, Departamento de Historia del Arte

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Free E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Many European museums hold unusual, «hybrid» objects from various periods and areas of the world that reflect images of the Other. The collections of both European and non-Western art belonging to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, include very early evidence of perception of the Other going back as far as the 16th century. Using a number of examples from Dresden ranging in date from this early period down to the 20thcentury, and by adopting a different vantage point and hence a change in perspective, this paper attempts to consider and re-evaluate social and cultural foreignness and Otherness and to elucidate its ambivalent and ambiguous relationship with the Own and the Self. The multiple layers of meaning inherent in the museum-held cultural objects which are influenced by or related to the «foreign», or have a hybrid appearance, can, when viewed from a different historical and locational perspective, contribute to our understanding of intracultural and also intercultural distance and connection, identities and intentions, realities and constructions, and thus provide a better understanding of transcultural processes.