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Presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II’s Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko’s totalitarian Zaire. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Table of Contents
  • List of Images
  • Preface
  • Map of Kinshasa
  • Introduction: Entangled Histories
  • Chapter One: Behind Congo Style: Navigating Research
  • PART I: STYLE CONGO
  • Chapter Two: Looking for the Congo in Style Congo: Art Nouveau and the African Colony
  • Chapter Three: Style Congo in the Congo: Colonial Modernism Takes Root
  • PART II: CONGO STYLE
  • Chapter Four: Modernism, Congo Style: Authenticity and Tradition
  • Chapter Five: Kinshasa’s Congo Style: Sites of Postcolonial Identity
  • Conclusion: From Total Artwork to Totalitarianism
  • Map of Kinshasa
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix

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      Publisher LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Published 7/25/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780472076314
      978-0472076314
      ISBN-10 0472076310
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II’s Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko’s totalitarian Zaire. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Images
      • Preface
      • Map of Kinshasa
      • Introduction: Entangled Histories
      • Chapter One: Behind Congo Style: Navigating Research
      • PART I: STYLE CONGO
      • Chapter Two: Looking for the Congo in Style Congo: Art Nouveau and the African Colony
      • Chapter Three: Style Congo in the Congo: Colonial Modernism Takes Root
      • PART II: CONGO STYLE
      • Chapter Four: Modernism, Congo Style: Authenticity and Tradition
      • Chapter Five: Kinshasa’s Congo Style: Sites of Postcolonial Identity
      • Conclusion: From Total Artwork to Totalitarianism
      • Map of Kinshasa
      • Bibliography
      • Appendix

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