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Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale,Gustaaf Verswijver
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Gustaaf Verswijver,Els De Palmenaer,Viviane Baeke,Anne-Marie Bouttiaux-Ndiaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1419340129
Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale
Publisher : Wasmuth
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822025720392
In this sweeping catalogue replete with full color photographs, the Royal Museum of Central Africa documents one of the most exciting exhibitions ever devoted to Central Africa, with 250 pieces including masks, ancestor statues, ritual figurines, and many other carvings from various ethnic groups, such as the Kongo, Yaka, Tshokwe, and Ovimbunda. Originally collected on scientific expeditions, many of the artifacts have remained hidden away from view since their arrival at the museum.
Author : Boris Wastiau
Publisher : Boris Wastiau
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Anthropological museums and collections
ISBN : 9789075894332
Author : Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822005217716
A catalog of the recent exhibition (ended November 1990) presenting 61 examples of sculpture from Zaire and adjacent parts of Angola and the People's Republic of Congo. The introduction surveys the history of the area and gives a history of the Berlin Museum's ethnographic collections as well. Includes photos (color and bandw) and descriptions of the objects in the exhibition, shown in the US for the first time. Distributed by Abrams. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Boris Wastiau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1040585864
Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Tervuren, Belgique)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:762593411
Author : Aimé Mpané,Jean-Pierre Müller (Artist)
Publisher : Exhibitions International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9085868378
A richly illustrated book, compiling texts by renowned experts about the history of the rotunda of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 9061747767
Author : Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056810982
One of the leading collections of African art in the world, the African collection at Berlin's Ethnological Museum contains important masterpieces from many different regions of the continent. This stunning book includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white reproductions of masks, ceremonial figures, musical instruments, and objects of everyday life from throughout Africa. Among the jewels in the museum are the Ife Collection from Nigeria; rare Benin bronzes; Afro-Portuguese ivories; magical figures from the Lower Congo and a host of East African sculpture and masks that have gained increasing attention in recent years. Essays by leading ethnologists supply important cultural and historical information on each region, as well as fascinating insights into the ways European and African art have traded influences over the centuries.
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394323
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zeurich, at later dates.
Author : Enid Schildkrout,Curtis A. Keim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Mary Bouquet,Nuno Porto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1571815201
Exploring the idea of the museum as a ritual site, this volume looks at contemporary experience across Europe and Africa to reveal the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such places
Author : Sarah Van Beurden
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445457
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 : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.
