Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of South Wales (joint submission with Cardiff Metropolitan University and University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Chapter title
“Out of Phantom Africa: Michel Leiris, Man Ray and the Dogon”
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
International Art and Artists, Washington DC
Book title
Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens
ISBN of book
978-0816670178
Year of publication
2009
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
This essay is based on a body of critical historical research into surrealism and photography, with particular emphasis on the documentary, which Walker has developed since the early 1970s. Here, Walker contrasts Man Ray’s direct photographic approach to the Dogon with Leiris’ intricate and obscure writing. His discussion extends from the 1931 Mission Dakar-Djibouti to how installation of Dogon objects at the new Musee de Quai Branly in Paris affects twenty-first-century viewers’ interpretation of the objects.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
D - Film, Photography and Digital Media
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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