User:Czar/drafts/African art

Introduction

 * scope, background

Western approach

 * academic study, Western aesthetic use, colonialism, historiography

Regions

 * + diaspora?

Contemporary
As of 2016, 80 percent of African art collectors are based in the United States and United Kingdom, and works have seen tenfold value increases. Works of contemporary artists Julie Mehretu, El Anatsui, and Irma Stern have sold for millions of dollars.


 * tribal market https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-collectors-hunger-trophy-works-drives-increase-tribal-art-market

Collections

 * museums, libraries, collectors, market, shows, exhibitions, forgery