THE TROPICS

Western art has long nurtered an idyllic dream of the tropics, absorbing larger cultural longings for exoticism, armchair travel, un inhibited sensuality and the rejection of industrialized civilization. Taking European constructions of tropicality as its point of departure, this volume juxtaposes 200 pre-modern works from Africa, Asia, Oceania and tropical America (from the collections of the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin) with works by 40 contemporary artists from Brazil, South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia, tracing l...[Read more]