Airport Art

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Airport Art ( English , "airport art") are called mass-produced objects and images that copies or adaptations of of masks , figures , consumer goods and other ethnographic intended to represent objects. They are specially made for sale to locals or foreigners, most of whom are tourists , and are offered for sale in hotels, markets, tourist attractions, and all places that travelers frequent.

Since you can buy them at the airport shortly before departure , the name Airport Art came into use. There are also the synonyms souvenir art, tourist art, ethnic kitsch. Such objects are sold over large geographical areas, for example wood carvings from West Africa can be acquired in Kenya or Morocco.

literature

  • Ingrid Thurner: Airport Art from West Africa . In: Communications from the Anthropological Society in Vienna. Vol. 125/126, 1995/96, pp. 225-247. (With further literature).
  • Arjun Appadurai (Ed.): The social life of things. Commodities in a cultural perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010 (1st edition 1986).
  • Nelson HH Graburn (Ed.): Ethnic and Tourist Arts. Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles / London 1976, ISBN 0-520-02949-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • David L. Hume: The development of tourist art and souvenirs. The arc of the boomerang: from hunting, fighting and ceremony to tourist souvenir. In: International Journal of Tourism Research. vol. 11/1, 2009, pp. 55-70.