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Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602219081
Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164954241
Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Art, Yoruba
ISBN : UCSD:31822032627366
Author : Dana Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101617953
More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs. They turned out landmark collections in mesmerizing, theatrical shows that retailers and critics still gush about and designers continue to reference. Their approach to fashion was wildly different—Galliano began as an illustrator, McQueen as a Savile Row tailor. Galliano led the way with his sensual bias-cut gowns and his voluptuous hourglass tailoring, which he presented in romantic storybook-like settings. McQueen, though nearly ten years younger than Galliano, was a brilliant technician and a visionary artist who brought a new reality to fashion, as well as an otherworldly beauty. For his first official collection at the tender age of twenty-three, McQueen did what few in fashion ever achieve: he invented a new silhouette, the Bumster. They had similar backgrounds: sensitive, shy gay men raised in tough London neighborhoods, their love of fashion nurtured by their doting mothers. Both struggled to get their businesses off the ground, despite early critical success. But by 1997, each had landed a job as creative director for couture houses owned by French tycoon Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH. Galliano’s and McQueen’s work for Dior and Givenchy and beyond not only influenced fashion; their distinct styles were also reflected across the media landscape. With their help, luxury fashion evolved from a clutch of small, family-owned businesses into a $280 billion-a-year global corporate industry. Executives pushed the designers to meet increasingly rapid deadlines. For both Galliano and McQueen, the pace was unsustainable. In 2010, McQueen took his own life three weeks before his womens' wear show. The same week that Galliano was fired, Forbes named Arnault the fourth richest man in the world. Two months later, Kate Middleton wore a McQueen wedding gown, instantly making the house the world’s most famous fashion brand, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a wildly successful McQueen retrospective, cosponsored by the corporate owners of the McQueen brand. The corporations had won and the artists had lost. In her groundbreaking work Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In so doing, she reveals the revolution in high fashion in the last two decades—and the price it demanded of the very ones who saved it.
Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015033149264
This fascinating book features 35 stories from the Zulu, Swahili, Bantu, Ashanti and other African cultures, passed down from generation to generation that are still told today. Filled with magnificent, full-color illustrations, an index, map and a guide to symbols in the mythology.
Author : Jean Laude
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1973-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520023587
Author : Dr. Supreme Understanding
Publisher : Supreme Design Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780307874337
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.
Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134838417
The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical strategies even more than it echoes black vernacular literary forms. This book, first published in 1984, is divided into two sections, thus clarifying the nature of black literary theory on the one hand, and the features of black literary practice on the other. Rather than merely applying contemporary Western theory to black literature, these critics instead challenge and redefine the theory in order to make fresh, stimulating comments not only on black criticism and literature but also on the general state of criticism today.
Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195060744
Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers.
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Harvard University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07-16
Category : African Americans in literature
ISBN : 9780199729173
"The originality, brilliance, and scope of the work is remarkable.... Gates will instruct, delight, and stimulate a broad range of readers, both those who are already well versed in Afro-American literature, and those who, after reading this book, will eagerly begin to be."--Barbara E. Johnson, Harvard University. "A critical enterprise of the first importance.... Gates promises to lead and to show the way in boldness of conception, in vigor of execution, and in vitality and pertinence of expression."--James Olney, Louisiana State University. Recently awarded Honorable Mention from the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee of the American Studies Association, Figures in Black takes a provocative new look at how we analyze and define black literature. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., attacks the notion that the dominant mode of Afro-American literature is, or should be, a kind of social realism, evaluated primarily as a reflection of the "Black Experience." Instead, Gates insists that critics turn to the language of the text and bring to their work the close, methodical analysis of language made possible by modern literary theory. But his goal in this volume is not merely to "apply" contemporary theory to black texts. Indeed, as he ranges from 18th-century poet Phillis Wheatley to modern writers Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker, he attempts to redefine literary criticism itself, moving it away from a Eurocentric notion of a hierarchical canon--mostly white, Western, and male--to foster a truly comparative and pluralisic notion of literature. In doing so, he provides critics with a powerful tool for the analysis of black art and, more important, reveals for all readers the brilliance and depth of the Afro-American tradition.
Author : Arthur Huff Fauset
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812290677
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested itself in the civil rights movement. The American black church, according to Fauset and other contemporary researchers, provided the one place where blacks could experiment without hindrance in activities such as business, politics, social reform, and social expression. With detailed primary accounts of these early spiritual movements and their beliefs and practices, Black Gods of the Metropolis reveals the fascinating origins of such significant modern African American religious groups as the Nation of Islam as well as the role of lesser known and even forgotten churches in the history of the black community. In her new foreword, historian Barbara Dianne Savage discusses the relationship between black intellectuals and black religion, in particular the relationship between black social scientists and black religious practices during Fauset's time. She then explores the complexities of that relationship and its impact on the intellectual and political history of African American religion in general.
Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran,Paula Saunders
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253013910
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human condition.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497647