TY - JOUR
TI - Art and Race. The engravings of primi-tive people at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair 
AU - Cataldi, Maddalena
TI - Art and Race. The engravings of primi-tive people at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair 
AB - Based on a case study, this paper aims to examine the scientific, industrial and political interests that intertwine at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair. We will focus on a graphic composition that was elaborated from various copies of rock art presented in several pavilions of the Exhibition and published by a science magazine. This figure was composed to compare the artistic capacities of European prehistoric and African contemporary primitives, all belonging, in the discourse of the French anthropologists, to the same race. The article considers the construction of anthropology in public space as a science claiming to be capable of analysing racial relationships in their environment and therefore capable of scientifically directing the French colonial project.
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 50
PY - 2018
SN - 0078-6500
C1 - 2657-5337
SP - 67
EP - 100
DO - 10.4467/00786500.ORG.18.004.9498
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/organon/article/art-et-race-les-gravures-des-peuples-primitifs-a-lexposition-universelle-de-paris-de-1878
KW - Arthur Bordier
KW - 1878 Paris World’s Fair
KW - rock art
KW - race
KW - colonialism
KW - popular sciences
KW - anthropology
KW - prehistory
KW - science museums