Art In Africa 1

Author : Christa Clarke,Rebecca Arkenberg
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588391902

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The Art of Africa by Christa Clarke,Rebecca Arkenberg Pdf

A CD-ROM and DVD set extracted from the 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators.' The CD-ROM "contains a PDF of 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators, ' which features forty traditional works of African art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes a brief overview of the Metropolitan's collection of African art; a short introduction and history of Africa; an explanation of the role of visual expression in the continent; descriptions of the featured works of art and background about the materials and techniques that were used to created them ... The DVD, 'Ci Wara Invocation, ' "presents the highlights of a dozen ci wara performances in Bamana communities in present-day Mali that were recorded by five different observers between 1970-2002. Among the Bamana, oral traditions credit a mythical being named Ci Wara, a divine being half mortal and half antelope, with the introduction of agriculture to the Bamana. The ci wara performances are part of biannual celebrations that either launch or conclude the farming season."--Container

Author : Judith von D. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015006317450

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Art in East Africa by Judith von D. Miller Pdf

Author : Monica Blackmun Visonà,Robin Poynor,Herbert M. Cole,Michael D. Harris
Publisher : Discontinued 3pd
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Peter Stepan
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029729469

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Africa by Peter Stepan Pdf

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Author : Pamela McClusky,Robert Farris Thompson,Seattle Art Museum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691092753

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Art from Africa by Pamela McClusky,Robert Farris Thompson,Seattle Art Museum Pdf

"The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects-- in the Seatle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art."

Author : Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015062620003

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Arts of Africa by Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco) Pdf

"This beautifully illustrated volume highlights all the rich diversity of African cultures through a meaningful selection of masterpieces of traditional African art."--Global Books in Print.

Author : J. Vansina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317869023

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Art History in Africa by J. Vansina Pdf

This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader with a systematic method for the historical understanding of African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique, style and meaning of art objects and examines the creative process through which they come into being. Numerous photographs and drawings illustrate his arguments, and help to explain the changes that have taken place.

Author : Delinda Collier
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478012313

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Media Primitivism by Delinda Collier Pdf

In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh’s Ta’abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extractive mining and electricity. Collier reorients modern African art within a larger constellation of philosophies of aesthetics and technology, demonstrating how pivotal artworks transcend the distinctions between the constructed and the elemental, thereby expanding ideas about mediation and about what African art can do.

Author : Marcel Griaule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106001420576

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Folk Art of Black Africa by Marcel Griaule Pdf

Study of African primitive art and its meaning in the religious and social life of the African tribes.

Author : Tibor Bodrogi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : African American art
ISBN : UOM:39015006321015

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Art in Africa by Tibor Bodrogi Pdf

The Director of the Ethnological Museum of Budapest explains the cult functions of the bronzes, ivories, masks, fetishes, and other art of the African cultures of the past.

Author : Betty LaDuke
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015047134864

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Africa by Betty LaDuke Pdf

In Africa, women's passion to create is evident during times of peace as well as war, under favorable circumstances as well as the most difficult and dangerous imaginable. Their media of expression can be naturally derived or imported. It can vary from monumental stone sculpture to intricate beadwork, or from painting with mud to oil and acrylic. The passion to decorate is evident in daily life from the designs applied to the smallest clay bowls, to the sturdy mud walls of their compounds where women give birth or see life pass away. These decorations are frequently symbolic and the motifs can please as well as reinforce shared community values. Across the African continent, from Timbuktu, Mali to Harare, Zimbabwe or Asmara, Eritrea, whether women weave, sew, sketch, paint, create fabric applique or stone sculptures, their art work often incorporates the duality of myth and reality as they express their hopes, fears, humor, and frustrations.

Author : Susan Vogel,Ima Ebong,Wouter Eildert Albert Beek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:812989119

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Africa Explores by Susan Vogel,Ima Ebong,Wouter Eildert Albert Beek Pdf

Overzicht van Afrikaanse kunst uit de 20e eeuw.

Author : Peter S. Garlake
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842617

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Early Art and Architecture of Africa by Peter S. Garlake Pdf

This new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West Africa, Great Zimbabwe, and the East African coast--treating each in detail and setting them in their social and historical context. Garlake is long familiar with and has extensive practical experience of both the archaeology and the art history of Africa. Using the latest research and archaeological findings, he offers exciting new insights into the works native to these areas, and he also puts forth new interpretations of several key cultures and monuments. Acknowledging the universal allure of the African art object, this stunning book helps us to understand more about the ways in which this art was produced, used, and received.

Author : African Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976261812

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African Arts by African Arts Pdf

Author : Frank Willett
Publisher : [New York] : Praeger
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art, African
ISBN : UOM:39015002279035

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African Art by Frank Willett Pdf