Sarah Van Beurden
Biographic Data
| ID | 224948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Van Beurden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Beurden |
| SIGNATURE | VAN BEURDEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1453-2625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Arts across Africa before 1600: An Ever-Growing Void
In Cape Town, one of the origins of art sits in a gallery hidden within a winding exhibition on humanity geared at children at the Iziko South African Museum. Not much larger than a modern marker pen, a chunk of ochre found in the Blombos Cave bears gridded lines that testify to an unknown person's decisive mark-making some 73,000 years ago (Fig. 1). The so-called Lydenburg heads (ImiKrolo yeetNtloko yaseLydenburg), impressively scaled works scul…
History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye
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Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
In December of 2018, the renovated Royal Museum for Central Africa (the RMCA, which now goes by “the AfricaMuseum”), in the Brussels suburb of Tervuren, reopened its doors after a five-year-long process of renovation and reinstallation. When it closed its doors in 2013, its permanent displays were hopelessly outdated, revealing their deep roots in the country’s colonial past. This review is based on two visits to the museum: one during its reopen…
Congo Art Works: Popular Painting
Congo Art Works is a book with two identities. First, it is part of the series Collections of the RMCA, which introduces readers to the wide range of collections at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) in Belgium. In this case, the focus is on the museum's collection of so-called popular paintings from Congo. Sometimes also referred to as urban or international art, the term is generally understood to refer to nonacademic paintings produced…
The Zairian Avant-garde
Research Article| May 01 2018 The Zairian Avant-garde: Modes of African Modernism Sarah Van Beurden Sarah Van Beurden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 151–158. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355269 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah Van Beurden; The Zairian Avant-garde: Modes of African Modernism. Radical History Revie…
Cultures of decolonization. Transnational productions and practices, 1945–70 Edited by Ruth Craggs and Claire Wintle
Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture
The Art of (Re)possession: Heritage and the Cultural Politics of Congo's Decolonization
This article argues for a thematic and periodization shift in the approach to the history of Congo's decolonization. It demonstrates how debates about cultural heritage and demands for cultural restitution became important aspects of Congolese interpretations of decolonization, and argues that they played an important role in the national and international politics that were central to the construction of the cultural sovereignty of the postcolon…
The Value of Culture: Congolese Art and the Promotion of Belgian Colonialism (1945-1959)
Based on the scholarship of Frans M. Olbrechts and the changes implemented in the Museum of the Belgian Congo during his directorship (from 1947 until 1958), this article argues that the institutionalization of African artefacts as art served the late Belgian colonial regime in promoting its renewed postwar commitment to the Congolese colony. In their reinvention as art and subsequent re-installation in modernist displays, the objects acquired no…
Forty Years of IMNC: 11 March 1970–11 March 2010 . Salle Joseph Aurélien Cornet, Institute for National Museums of Congo, Mont Ngaliema, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
The Art of (Re)possession: Heritage and the Cultural Politics of Congo's Decolonization
This article argues for a thematic and periodization shift in the approach to the history of Congo's decolonization. It demonstrates how debates about cultural heritage and demands for cultural restitution became important aspects of Congolese interpretations of decolonization, and argues that they played an important role in the national and international politics that were central to the construction of the cultural sovereignty of the postcolon…
The Value of Culture: Congolese Art and the Promotion of Belgian Colonialism (1945-1959)
Based on the scholarship of Frans M. Olbrechts and the changes implemented in the Museum of the Belgian Congo during his directorship (from 1947 until 1958), this article argues that the institutionalization of African artefacts as art served the late Belgian colonial regime in promoting its renewed postwar commitment to the Congolese colony. In their reinvention as art and subsequent re-installation in modernist displays, the objects acquired no…
History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Forty Years of IMNC: 11 March 1970–11 March 2010 . Salle Joseph Aurélien Cornet, Institute for National Museums of Congo, Mont Ngaliema, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
The Value of Culture: Congolese Art and the Promotion of Belgian Colonialism (1945-1959)
Based on the scholarship of Frans M. Olbrechts and the changes implemented in the Museum of the Belgian Congo during his directorship (from 1947 until 1958), this article argues that the institutionalization of African artefacts as art served the late Belgian colonial regime in promoting its renewed postwar commitment to the Congolese colony. In their reinvention as art and subsequent re-installation in modernist displays, the objects acquired no…
Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture
The Art of (Re)possession: Heritage and the Cultural Politics of Congo's Decolonization
This article argues for a thematic and periodization shift in the approach to the history of Congo's decolonization. It demonstrates how debates about cultural heritage and demands for cultural restitution became important aspects of Congolese interpretations of decolonization, and argues that they played an important role in the national and international politics that were central to the construction of the cultural sovereignty of the postcolon…
Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Cultures of decolonization. Transnational productions and practices, 1945–70 Edited by Ruth Craggs and Claire Wintle
Congo Art Works: Popular Painting
Congo Art Works is a book with two identities. First, it is part of the series Collections of the RMCA, which introduces readers to the wide range of collections at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) in Belgium. In this case, the focus is on the museum's collection of so-called popular paintings from Congo. Sometimes also referred to as urban or international art, the term is generally understood to refer to nonacademic paintings produced…
The Zairian Avant-garde
Research Article| May 01 2018 The Zairian Avant-garde: Modes of African Modernism Sarah Van Beurden Sarah Van Beurden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 151–158. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355269 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah Van Beurden; The Zairian Avant-garde: Modes of African Modernism. Radical History Revie…
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
In December of 2018, the renovated Royal Museum for Central Africa (the RMCA, which now goes by “the AfricaMuseum”), in the Brussels suburb of Tervuren, reopened its doors after a five-year-long process of renovation and reinstallation. When it closed its doors in 2013, its permanent displays were hopelessly outdated, revealing their deep roots in the country’s colonial past. This review is based on two visits to the museum: one during its reopen…
History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Arts across Africa before 1600: An Ever-Growing Void
In Cape Town, one of the origins of art sits in a gallery hidden within a winding exhibition on humanity geared at children at the Iziko South African Museum. Not much larger than a modern marker pen, a chunk of ochre found in the Blombos Cave bears gridded lines that testify to an unknown person's decisive mark-making some 73,000 years ago (Fig. 1). The so-called Lydenburg heads (ImiKrolo yeetNtloko yaseLydenburg), impressively scaled works scul…
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