Cloth Dress And Art Patronage In Africa

Author : Judith Perani,Norma Wolff
Publisher : Berg 3pl
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004323189

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Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage in Africa by Judith Perani,Norma Wolff Pdf

Drawing examples from a wide range of African cultures, this ground-breaking book expands the continuing discourse on the aesthetic and cultural significance of cloth, body and dress in Africa and moves beyond contextual analysis to consider the broader application of cloth and dress to art forms in other media. In blending the concerns of Art History and Anthropology, the authors focus on the art patronage systems that stimulate production, consumption, commodification and cultural meaning, and emphasize the overriding importance of cloth to aesthetic and cultural expression in African societies. Through this approach they reveal complex processes that involve a series of actors, including textile artists, commissioning-patrons and consumer-patrons, all of whom shape cloth and dress traditions. These individuals not only influence production, but are a key to understanding the cultural meaning of cloth and dress and, by extension, the body in Africa.

Author : Anne Haour,Benedetta Rossi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004185432

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Being and Becoming Hausa by Anne Haour,Benedetta Rossi Pdf

Drawing on anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology, this book offers a compelling portrait of the emergence and evolution of Hausa identity in West Africa.

Author : Colleen E. Kriger
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759114234

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Cloth in West African History by Colleen E. Kriger Pdf

In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings. She pays close attention the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century. Closely tracing this history in Nigeria,Cloth in West African History offers a fresh perspective on the history of the region and on the local, regional, and global processes that shaped it.

Author : Daniel Delis Hill
Publisher : Daniel Delis Hill
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780986425493

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History of World Dress and Fashion, Second Edition by Daniel Delis Hill Pdf

The History of World Dress and Fashion presents a comprehensive survey of dress from around the world including China, Japan, India, Africa, the Islamic Empire, and the Ancient Americas. This extensive study features descriptions and analysis of men’s, women’s and children’s clothing, accessories, and cultural styles from prehistory into the twenty-first century. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, it features more than 1600 images - and is a valuable resource for fashion designers, theater costumers, textile researchers, costume collectors and curators, and anyone interest in clothing and style customs of the world.

Author : Alisa LaGamma,Christine Giuntini,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : 9781588392930

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The Essential Art of African Textiles by Alisa LaGamma,Christine Giuntini,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Karen Tranberg Hansen,D. Soyini Madison
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780857858207

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African Dress by Karen Tranberg Hansen,D. Soyini Madison Pdf

Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order. Drawing on innovative, interdisciplinary research by established and up and coming scholars, the book examines real life projects and social transformations that are deeply political, revolving around individual and public goals of dignity, respect, status, and morality. With its remarkable scope, this book will attract students and scholars of fashion and dress, material culture and consumption, performance studies, and art history in relation to Africa and on a global scale.

Author : Robert Ross
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780745657530

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Clothing by Robert Ross Pdf

In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compelling account and analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time it takes seriously those places where, for whatever reason, this process has not occurred, or has been reversed, and provides explanations for these developments. The first part of this story recounts how the cultural, political and economic power of Europe and, from the later nineteenth century North America, has provided an impetus for the adoption of whatever was at that time standard Western dress. Set against this, Robert Ross shows how the adoption of European style dress, or its rejection, has always been a political act, performed most frequently in order to claim equality with colonial masters, more often a male option, or to stress distinction from them, which women, perhaps under male duress, more frequently did. The book takes a refreshing global perspective to its subject, with all continents and many countries being discussed. It investigates not merely the symbolic and message-bearing aspects of clothing, but also practical matters of production and, equally importantly, distribution.

Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir,Till Förster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253007414

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

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.

Author : Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781621967194

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Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People by Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi Pdf

This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.

Author : Victoria L. Rovine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253014139

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African Fashion, Global Style by Victoria L. Rovine Pdf

African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.

Author : Karen Tranberg Hansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009350365

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Dress Cultures in Zambia by Karen Tranberg Hansen Pdf

Explores both Zambian dress practices from the late-colonial period until the present and African contributions to globally circulating fashions.

Author : Jonathan Bloom,Sheila Blair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1697 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195309911

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Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set by Jonathan Bloom,Sheila Blair Pdf

The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq are elucidated here by distinguished scholars. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. In addition, over 500 illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world. With the fundamental understanding that Islamic art is not limited to a particular region, or to a defined period of time, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture offers pathways into Islamic culture through its art.

Author : Steven J. Salm,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313011320

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Culture and Customs of Ghana by Steven J. Salm,Toyin Falola Pdf

The decades of independence in Ghana have strengthened the idea of a national Ghanaian culture. The culture and customs of Ghana today are a product of diversity in traditional forms, influenced by a long history of Islamic and European contact. Culture and Customs of Ghana is the first book to concisely provide an up-to-date narrative on the most significant elements of the established cultural life and institutions as well as the most recent changes in the cultural landscape. Written expressly for students and the general reader, it belongs in every library supporting multicultural and African studies curricula. Ghana seeks to cultivate the philosophy of the African personality, to revive, maintain, and promote Ghanaian ways of life and integrate them into political and social institutions. Ghanaians also recognize their relationship to the rest of the world and continue to develop with the forces of globalization. Culture and Customs of Ghana authoritatively discusses the vibrant and adaptable people, from their religions to music and dance. A chronology, glossary, and numerous photos complement the text.

Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253022653

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African Art and the Colonial Encounter by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir Pdf

Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.

Author : Nikki Rollason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317128199

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Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature by Nikki Rollason Pdf

Both clothing and gifts in the ancient world have separately been the subject of much scholarly discussion because they were an integral part of Greek and Roman society and identity, creating and reinforcing the relationships which kept a community together, as well as delineating status and even symbolising society as a whole. They have, however, rarely been studied together despite the prevalence of clothing gifts in many ancient texts. This book addresses a gap in scholarship by focusing on gifts of elite male clothing in late antique literature in order to show that, when they appeared in texts, these items were not only functioning in an historical or 'real-life' sphere but also as a literary space within which authors could discuss ideas of social relationships and authority. This book suggests that authors used items which usually formed part of the costume of authority of the period - the trabea of the consul, the chlamys of the imperial court and the emperor, and the pallium of the Christian bishops - to 'over-write' wearers and donors as confident figures of 'official' authority when this may have been open to doubt.