Traditional African artistic production
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Traditional African artistic production has historically been misinterpreted or largely ignored by Western scholarship. Essentially African art was relegated to the study of anthropology, rather than formal art, and thus was thought of as primitive, insinuating that African art was un-evolved and backward, as well as the same throughout the huge continent. Kasfir cites the problems inherent in approaching the visual culture of a continent the size of Africa with more than 50 national identities and 800 languages. In spite of this, there has been a tendency to ignore the artistic variety, and lump all visual expression together. Art historian Frank Willett points out, ôthe term primitive art is a legacy from the anthropologists of the nineteenth century who saw the Europe of their day as the apex of social evolutionö (28). Willett contends that the only proper, and sensible way to judge foreign art traditions is on their own terms, and by specific regions, instead
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