Monday, February 22, 2010

Baule fetish figures

Bourriaud refers to these figures as symbols in an argument he makes against modernist universalism.  He calls them "Authorless, the product of an obscure tribe, mere kindling for the furnace of progress," They exist outside of Thomas McEvilley's model of a single ahistorical line of history which excludes "nature and the undeveloped world around it"-pp19, The Radicant

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