African Art Culture

Author : British Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSD:31822028772689

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Africa by British Museum Pdf

The collections of the British Museum provide an exceptional resource for exploring both African antiquity and its contemporary arts and cultures. This book looks at the continent as a whole. It describes through a series of essays the history and arts of particular regions and the sources of the collections now in the Museum. Each section will be well-illustrated with a mix of archival and contemporary field photographs, and will also integrate illustrations of up to 50 important individual objects from this world-famous collection. The objects will have a commentary on their significance by leading figures in the field of African studies, many of them native to the areas from which the objects derive. The book brings to bear a mix of Western and African scholarship in an innovative collaboration to reassess one of the great African collections.

Author : John Mack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050697104

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Africa, Arts and Cultures by John Mack Pdf

This strikingly illustrated, authoritative reassessment of African art is based on the world-renowned collection housed in the British Museum. By presenting art from across the continent, past and present, the volume offers an innovative approach that allows the reader to appreciate African art in its totality. 200 illustrations, 150 in color.

Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1410921050

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African Art & Culture by Jane Bingham Pdf

Looks at the art of Africa including pottery, baskets, and wood carving and explains what we can learn about the culture of Africa while examining these art forms.

Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette,J.R. Osborn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780252052156

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African Art Reframed by Bennetta Jules-Rosette,J.R. Osborn Pdf

Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The authors take a three-pronged approach. Part One ranges from curiosity cabinets to virtual websites to offer a history of ethnographic and art museums and look at their organization and methods of reaching out to the public. In the second part, the authors examine museums as ecosystems and communities within communities, and they use semiotic methods to analyze images, signs, and symbols drawn from the experiences of curators and artists. The third part introduces innovative strategies for displaying, disseminating, and reclaiming African art. The authors also propose how to reinterpret the art inside and outside the museum and show ways of remixing the results. Drawing on extensive conversations with curators, collectors, and artists, African Art Reframed is an essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art.

Author : Monica Blackmun Visonà,Robin Poynor,Herbert M. Cole,Michael D. Harris
Publisher : Discontinued 3pd
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, African
ISBN : UCSD:31822034340372

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A History of Art in Africa by Monica Blackmun Visonà,Robin Poynor,Herbert M. Cole,Michael D. Harris Pdf

Informed by the latest scholarship yet written for the general reader, this is the first comprehensive book to present the arts of Africa in art-historical terms. The authors treat individual pieces as tangible manifestations of changing beliefs and customs, as products of complex cultural interactions, as expressions of historical and economic realities, and as creations of gifted individuals, and in so doing brilliantly offer up African art on its own terms. Organized in five major parts, A History of Art in Africa covers every corner of the continent, including Egypt, from prehistory to the present day and includes the art of the African diaspora. The Islamic influence and the Christian arts of Ethiopia and Nubia are treated as fully African expressions, as are tourist arts and the fascinating hybrid art that periodically arose from interaction with Europe. All art forms are given equal consideration: from such familiar categories as sculpture to such quintessentially African forms as masquerades, festivals, and personal and domestic adornment. The arts of daily life, of royal ceremony, and of state cosmology also receive compelling discussions. And throughout, the authors emphasize the cultural contexts in which art is produced and imbued with meaning. Contemporary art forms are explored both as part of the living splendors of modern Africa and as ingenious responses to the experience of diaspora. The illustrations present a vast and rich range of images, including superb colorplates of artworks, archival and contemporary field photographs, explanatory drawings and plans, and individual objects displayed in museums and in use. Book jacket.

Author : William Russell Bascom
Publisher : New York : Norton
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art, African
ISBN : UCAL:B4924612

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African Art in Cultural Perspective by William Russell Bascom Pdf

A general survey of African art as it reflects tribal and cultural influences.

Author : Alexandre Marc
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821341957

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African Art by Alexandre Marc Pdf

African artistic expression has helped to construct culture, form social identity, and support spiritual communication. The choice of the World Bank's African collection for a catalogue stems from the recognition by many art experts that the Bank is home to a rich and valuable collection that deserves to be better known by staff, representatives from member countries, and the public at large. The book displays African art from past to present, African art at the World Bank, and African art and society.

Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir,Till Förster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253007582

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African Art and Agency in the Workshop by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir,Till Förster Pdf

“Compelling case studies demonstrate how African workshops have long mediated collective expression and individual imagination.” —Allen F. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles The role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this revelatory book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and creative expression flourishes. African Art and Agency in the Workshop examines the variety of workshops, from those which are politically driven or tourist oriented, to those based on historical patronage or allied to current artistic trends. Fifteen lively essays explore the impact of the workshop on the production of artists such as Zimbabwean stone sculptors, master potters from Cameroon, wood carvers from Nigeria, and others from across the continent. Contributions by Nicolas Argenti, Jessica Gershultz, Norma Wolff, Christine Scherer, Silvia Forni, Elizabeth Morton, Alexander Bortolot, Brenda Schmahmann, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Karen E. Milbourne and Namubiru Rose Kirumira “A closer examination of the workshop provides important insights into art histories and cultural politics. We may think we know what we mean when we use the term ‘workshop,’ but in fact the organization of groups of artists takes on vastly different forms and encourages the production of diverse styles of art within larger social structures and power dynamics.” —Victoria Rovine, University of Florida “Taken as a whole, the case studies provide a wide window into the very diverse structural and functional characteristics of workshops. They also clearly describe how African workshops have served both contemporary political and cultural needs and have responded to patronage, whether it be traditional or stimulated by tourism.” —African Studies Review

Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500203288

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Contemporary African Art by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir Pdf

A critical history of the major themes and accomplishments of well-known and obscure African art over the past fifty years examines artists and the new avenues of creative expression in post-colonial Africa.

Author : Roy Sieber,Frank Herreman,Niangi Batulukisi
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050315368

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Hair in African Art and Culture by Roy Sieber,Frank Herreman,Niangi Batulukisi Pdf

Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title held at the Museum for African Art, New York from 9 February - 28 May 2000.

Author : Osa Egonwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020445800

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African Art by Osa Egonwa Pdf

Author : Stephanie Newell,Onookome Okome
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135068936

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Popular Culture in Africa by Stephanie Newell,Onookome Okome Pdf

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.

Author : Christopher Spring
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674036220

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African Art in Detail by Christopher Spring Pdf

This book opens with the question, What is African art? The answer is a brilliantly colorful and detailed look at the myriad materials and genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts and expressions that comprise artistic traditions across this vast and varied continent. Viewing artworks in their contexts--ancient and modern, urban and rural, western and eastern, decorative and functional--the book is nothing less than a virtual tour of African culture. Masks, textiles, royal art, sculpture, ceramics, tools and weapons--in each instance, the book features examples that reveal the most significant aspects of workmanship, materials, and design in objects of wood, stone, ivory, clay, metalwork, featherwork, leather, basketwork, and cloth. Photographs of each piece alongside close-ups of fine details afford new views of these works and allow for intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. The featured details evoke the hand and eye of the most accomplished craftspeople across Africa, past and present. In sum, these photographs, along with Chris Spring's enlightening commentary, offer an experience of African art that is at once broad and deep, richly informed and intimately felt. They are, at the same time, a kaleidoscopic view of art from prehistory to gestures prefiguring the future.

Author : Olu Oguibe,Okwui Enwezor
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028533532

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Reading the Contemporary by Olu Oguibe,Okwui Enwezor Pdf

In the past decade, contemporary African art has been featured in major exhibtions in museums, galleries, international biennials, and other forums. African cinema has established itself on the stage of world cinema, culminating in the Ouagadougou Film Festival. While African art and visual culture have become an integral part of the art history and cultural studies curricula in universities worldwide, critical readings and interpretations have remained difficult to obtain. This pioneering anthology collects twenty key essays in which major critical thinkers, scholars, and artists explore contemporary African visual culture, locating it within current cultural debates and within the context of the continent's history. The sections of the book are Theory and Cultural Transaction, History, Location and Practice, and Negotiated Identities. Copublished with the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London

Author : Mary Clare Kidenda,Lize Kriel,Ernst Wagner
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783830945239

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Visual Cultures of Africa by Mary Clare Kidenda,Lize Kriel,Ernst Wagner Pdf

The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to embodied performances by dancers and storytellers, even re-designed models of Western cars. Educators, designers, artists, critics, curators, and custodians based both in Africa and in Europe are configuring spaces for public, private, institutional as well as digital conversation – whether through pottery or portraiture, furniture or film, shoes or selfies, buildings or books. Readers are encouraged to question how African visual cultures are both ‘in’ and ‘of’; identifying and confrontational; post- and decolonial; preserved and practised; old and new; borrowed and authentic; composite and complete; rooted and soaring. Disciplines being engaged include visual culture studies, media studies, performance studies, orature, literature, art and design – as well as their histories. The editors Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel and Ernst Wagner represent three nodes in the Exploring Visual Cultures north-south collaborative network: The Technical University of Kenya, the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany.