Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
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Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

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Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

About this book

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These "practical guides" present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods the friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly attention.

This beautifully illustrated book includes full-color reproductions of all the images in the atlas, in conjunction with rarely seen related material gathered from collections and archives around the world. Taking a bold new approach to the study of early modern global interactions, art historian Cécile Fromont demonstrates how visual creations such as the Capuchin vignettes, though European in form and crafstmanship, emerged not from a single perspective but rather from cross-cultural interaction. Fromont models a fresh way to think about images created across cultures, highlighting the formative role that cultural encounter itself played in their conception, execution, and modes of operation.

Centering Africa and Africans, and with ramifications on four continents, Fromont's decolonial history profoundly transforms our understanding of the early modern world. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in early modern studies, art history, and religion.

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Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780271092188
eBook ISBN
9780271094106
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Notes to Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: “Nonsense” Capuchin Images of Kongo and Angola Against Italian Preconceptions
  8. Notes to Chapter1
  9. Chapter 2: Practical Guides to the MissionThe Capuchin Central-African Corpus
  10. Notes to Chapter2
  11. Chapter 3: Images and Devotion
  12. Notes to Chapter3
  13. Chapter 4: Images as Method
  14. Notes to Chapter4
  15. Chapter 5: Images Against Idolatry
  16. Notes to Chapter5
  17. Chapter 6: With “the Consent of the People, and the Secular Arm of the Prince
  18. Notes to Chapter6
  19. Chapter 7: Penned by Encounter Capuchins, Central Africans, and the Making of a Cross-Cultural Discourse
  20. Notes to Chapter7
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index