African Cultures Visual Arts And The Museum

Author : Tobias Döring
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042013206

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From the contents: Christine MATZKE: Comrades in arts and arms: stories of wars and watercolours from Eritrea. - Sabine MARSCHALL: Positioning the other': reception and interpretation of contemporary black South African artists. - Kristine ROOME: The art of liberating voices: contemporary South African art exhibited in New York. - Jonathan ZILBERG: Shona sculpture and documenta 2002: reflections on exclusions.

Author : Tobias Döring
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042013109

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African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum by Tobias Döring Pdf

From the contents: Christine MATZKE: Comrades in arts and arms: stories of wars and watercolours from Eritrea. - Sabine MARSCHALL: Positioning the other': reception and interpretation of contemporary black South African artists. - Kristine ROOME: The art of liberating voices: contemporary South African art exhibited in New York. - Jonathan ZILBERG: Shona sculpture and documenta 2002: reflections on exclusions.

Author : John Mack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Judith Perani,Fred. T. Smith
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050817587

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The Visual Arts of Africa by Judith Perani,Fred. T. Smith Pdf

Special features of this book: follows a geographical organization across the continent; each chapter is reader friendly with clear, accessible sub-headings; represents important religious and utilitarian art traditions from the Sahara desert, West Africa, Central Africa, Northeast Africa, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa; gives special attention to the themes of gender, power, and life cycle rituals, which frequently intersect with one another to form an understanding of the arts of Africa; includes figurative sculpture, masquerades, architecture, textiles, dress, ceramics, wall painting, and leatherwork traditions; includes selected examples of the earliest known documented art works as well as contemporary art of each geographical region; includes an up-to-date bibliography, incorporating recent published field research for each chapter; and features 369 black and white illustrations, 16 colored plates, maps, and a time line.

Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette,J.R. Osborn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Herman Burssens
Publisher : Quo Vadis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118007066

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Material Differences by Herman Burssens Pdf

"In Africa, the materials that are used to make objects of daily and ritual life are profoundly significant. Material is meaning. Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa examines the different layers of meaning inherent in the material of each object. Many African cultures believe that mineral and organic materials contain supernatural powers that are associated with protection, healing or with leadership. Some of these materials-wood, ivory, stone, clay, or metals such as iron, copper alloys, and gold-are laden with symbolic significance. The exhibition and this publication investigate the numerous factors that lead to the choice of specific materials in the creation of works of art in sub-Saharan Africa." --Google Books.

Author : Olu Oguibe,Okwui Enwezor
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : M. Xanthoudaki,L. Tickle,V. Sekules
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1402016360

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Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries by M. Xanthoudaki,L. Tickle,V. Sekules Pdf

Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries brings together case studies from Europe, Asia and North America, in a way that will lay a foundation for international co-operation in the future development and communication of practice-based research. The research in each of the cases directly stems from educational practice in very particular contexts, indicating at once the variety and detail of practitioners' concerns and their common interests.

Author : Mary Clare Kidenda,Lize Kriel,Ernst Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3830995237

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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.

Author : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,Richard Bergen Woodward
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004780218

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African Art by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,Richard Bergen Woodward Pdf

"Now in its second edition, this book is further enhanced by African proverbs. Intended as an introduction to African art, this book investigates five key themes common to many cultures in Africa: the human figure, community status symbols, objects for personal use, animal symbols, and cermonial masks. The author examines the roots of the art and the ideas that bring this continent to life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jacqueline Chanda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015033317820

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African Arts & Cultures by Jacqueline Chanda Pdf

Students are fully immersed in thoughtful exploration of the values, purposes, and interpretations of African works of art. From time-honored traditions to modern daily life, art is presented as an integral part of culture.

Author : Justine M. Cordwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110810240

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The Visual Arts by Justine M. Cordwell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American art
ISBN : PSU:000053638380

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The Art of Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Van Beurden
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445457

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Authentically African by Sarah Van Beurden Pdf

Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. In Authentically African, Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display of art and the construction of cultural authenticity and political legitimacy from the late colonial until the postcolonial era. Her study of the interconnected histories of these two institutions is the first history of an art museum in Africa, and the only work of its kind in English. Drawing on Flemish-language sources other scholars have been unable to access, Van Beurden illuminates the politics of museum collections, showing how the IMNZ became a showpiece in Mobutu’s effort to revive “authentic” African culture. She reconstructs debates between Belgian and Congolese museum professionals, revealing how the dynamics of decolonization played out in the fields of the museum and international heritage conservation. Finally, she casts light on the art market, showing how the traveling displays put on by the IMNZ helped intensify collectors’ interest and generate an international market for Congolese art. The book contributes to the fields of history, art history, museum studies, and anthropology and challenges existing narratives of Congo’s decolonization. It tells a new history of decolonization as a struggle over cultural categories, the possession of cultural heritage, and the right to define and represent cultural identities.

Author : Maria Emília Fonseca
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443827997

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Touching Art by Maria Emília Fonseca Pdf

This study focusses on the exhibition of the Tree of Life, a sculpture made in Mozambique of decommissioned, dismantled weapons, created to celebrate peace and commissioned by the British Museum, chosen to be the symbol of the “Africa 2005” season of cultural events and exhibited in its Great Court between February and October 2005. This artwork was first exhibited in Maputo before being dispatched to Britain and it is presently on display at the Sainsbury African Galleries of the British Museum, in London. This dissertation moves along two converging routes: the articulation of the meaning(s) produced within the exhibition and the role of exhibitionary institutions in the creation of social knowledge. A central topic of discussion is the different practices and sites of exhibition of the Tree of Life sculpture in Britain and in Mozambique, in an endeavour to illustrate/establish the differences which determine and/or condition the specific approaches used in the two distinct cultural contexts within which it was exhibited. The discussion evolves towards exploring how a new discourse on the exhibition of contemporary African art questions and challenges both curatorial practices and cultural concepts of collecting, displaying and interpreting art objects and negotiating meaning.