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Author : Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870995903
Author : Enid Schildkrout,Curtis A. Keim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 052158678X
Western attitudes to Africa have been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the arts and artefacts that were brought back by the early collectors, exhibited in museums, and celebrated by scholars and artists in the metropolitan centres. The contributors to this volume trace the life history of artefacts that were brought to Europe and America from Congo towards the end of the nineteenth century, and became the subjects of museum displays. They also present fascinating case studies of the pioneering collectors, including such major figures as Frobenius and Torday. They discuss the complex and sensitive issues involved in the business of 'collecting', and show how the collections and exhibitions influenced academic debates about the categories of art and artefact, and the notion of authenticity, and challenged conventional aesthetic values, as modern Western artists began to draw on African models.
Author : Daniel P. Biebuyck
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015016817739
Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ancestral shrines
ISBN : 9781588392275
"Many masterpieces of central African sculpture were created to amplify the power of sacred relics that affirm a family's vital connection to its ancestral heritage. This important volume, focusing on some 130 works representing a diverse variety of regional genres, illuminates the purpose and significance of these icons of African art, which first came to prominence because of their appeal to the Western avant-garde. While providing an overview of sources ranging from colonial explorers, missionaries, critics, artists, and art historians, the book breaks new ground in its examination of the complex aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of the reliquaries. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together the perspectives of scholars in African and medieval art history along with those in African history, religion, and ethnography." -- Publisher.
Author : Brenda Jackson,Penguin Books Staff,Ronald L McDonald
Publisher : Signet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451607732
Author : Erna Beumers,Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015029714030
Catalogus van een tentoonstelling over de beeldende kunst van de traditionele Midden-Afrikaanse koninkrijken.
Author : Constantijn Petridis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015082655518
Revealing the powers immanent in works that the West long regarded only as exotic or abstract, Constantine Petridis looks beneath the surface of the arts of the Luba, Songye, Chokwe and Luluwa peoples to find, literally embedded in sculpture, the forces that enable the spirit world to intervene in daily life. Ritual use of these objects is expected to ensure a healthy birth, successful hunt, or triumph over an enemy. Analysis of the scholarly record illuminates the changing visions of leadership and prestige that fostered the development of the majestic, elaborate figure styles long prized in the West. These sculptures nevertheless retain the mysterious potency of more humble objects trusted for centuries to protect, heal and harm. Art and Power in the Central African Savanna examines an artistic culture in which the sacred and the secular are indivisible, and aesthetic and moral value inseparable.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:429605307
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:85962596
Author : William Fagg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Masks
ISBN : LCCN:68001155
Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale,Gustaaf Verswijver
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X006055445
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Treasures of the Tervuren Museum held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa in 1996-97.
Author : Constantine Petridis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9462302146
Living in the region between the Lubudi and Kasai rivers in south central Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Luluwa people are known for their elaborately carved male and female figure sculptures, masks, and decorative arts. Constantine Petridis draws on first-hand accounts of numerous explorers, missionaries, colonial servants, anthropologists, and art historians who visited the region between the 1880s and the 1970s, to comprehensively situate the Luluwa's ornate art in its original environment of production and use. Through a close study of published and unpublished sources as well as museum objects and archival photographs, this book sheds new light on the historical context of one of central Africa's most spectacular artistic legacies, whose creation presumably dates back to the second half of the 19th century.
Author : Leslie Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art, African
ISBN : OCLC:31714128
Author : Christraud M. Geary
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0856675520
This book accompanies an exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, on the role of photography in Central Africa. This is the first book to link two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas, and sentiments in Europe and the US relating to the peoples of Central Africa; and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project images of themselves by becoming familiar with photographic technology. Broad in thematic and temporal scope, the book focuses on several time periods, especially on the years before and between the two world wars. This is also the first publication devoted to the important holdings of the Eliot Elisofen Photographic Archives, a department of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution and a unique repository with more than 200,000 historical and contemporary images from all over Africa. This book raises important issues associated with photographic practice in Africa, the distribution of images, the circulation of ideas in Europe and the US, and African responses to photography through several poignant case studies. This book also advances the scholarly discourse on colonial/anthropological photography, and contributes to a better understanding of African responses to photography.
Author : Zdeňka Volavková-Shořepová,Zdenka Volavka,York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : 0919604021