Modernist Art In Ethiopia

Author : Elizabeth W. Giorgis
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821446539

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Modernist Art in Ethiopia by Elizabeth W. Giorgis Pdf

If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia’s inimitable historical condition—its independence save for five years under Italian occupation—mean for its own modernist tradition? In Modernist Art in Ethiopia—the first book-length study of the topic—Elizabeth W. Giorgis recognizes that her home country’s supposed singularity, particularly as it pertains to its history from 1900 to the present, cannot be conceived outside the broader colonial legacy. She uses the evolution of modernist art in Ethiopia to open up the intellectual, cultural, and political histories of it in a pan-African context. Giorgis explores the varied precedents of the country’s political and intellectual history to understand the ways in which the import and range of visual narratives were mediated across different moments, and to reveal the conditions that account for the extraordinary dynamism of the visual arts in Ethiopia. In locating its arguments at the intersection of visual culture and literary and performance studies, Modernist Art in Ethiopia details how innovations in visual art intersected with shifts in philosophical and ideological narratives of modernity. The result is profoundly innovative work—a bold intellectual, cultural, and political history of Ethiopia, with art as its centerpiece.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harn Museum of Art
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art and state
ISBN : UCSD:31822035496934

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Continuity and Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Donald Lewis Donham
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0852552696

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Marxist Modern by Donald Lewis Donham Pdf

This is a cultural history of the Ethiopian revolution that highlights the role of modernist Marxist ideas as they interacted with local, mostly rural, traditions.

Author : Tracy L. Adler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791358819

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Elias Sime by Tracy L. Adler Pdf

A first-ever monograph featuring the work of the Ethiopian artist Elias Sime, who brilliantly explores the impact of life in a post-consumerist world. Sime's brightly-colored sculptural tableaus feature found objects including thread, buttons, electrical wires, and computer detritus. This book highlights the artist's work from the last decade, much of which comprises the series entitled "Tightrope." Repurposing salvaged electronic components, such as circuits and keyboards, Sime incorporates the refuse that are the byproducts of technological advancement, and points to the urgency of sustainability. The resulting abstractions reference landscape and the figure as well as traditional Ethiopian textiles. "Tightrope" refers to the precarious balance between the progress technology has made possible and its detrimental impact on the environment. Published with the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art

Author : Michael Levenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 052149866X

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The Cambridge Companion to Modernism by Michael Levenson Pdf

In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H. D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation.

Author : Elizabeth Harney,Jeff Donaldson,Achamyeleh Debela,Kinsey Katchka,National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059983604

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Ethiopian Passages by Elizabeth Harney,Jeff Donaldson,Achamyeleh Debela,Kinsey Katchka,National Museum of African Art (U.S.) Pdf

This study introduces audiences to the importance of the arts in the African diaspora and tells of the important histories of migration and the myriad negotiations of artistic, cultural, group and personal identities among African artists in the diaspora.

Author : Manuel Joo Ramos,Isabel Boavida
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0754650375

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The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art by Manuel Joo Ramos,Isabel Boavida Pdf

In the rural plateaux of northern Ethiopia, one can still find scattered ruins of monumental buildings that are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition. This little-known and rarely studied architectural heritage is a silent witness to a fascinating if equivocal cultural encounter that took place in the 16th-17th centuries between Catholic Europeans and Orthodox Ethiopians. The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art presents a selection of papers derived from the 5th Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, which for the first time systematically approached this heritage. Bringing together work by key researchers in the field, these studies open up a particularly rich period in the history of Ethiopia and cast new light on the complexities of cultural and religious (mis)encounters between Africa and Europe.

Author : Flavia Frigeri,Kristian Handberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429640582

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New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era by Flavia Frigeri,Kristian Handberg Pdf

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective. The reader is introduced to a new globally oriented approach to art, artists, museums and movements of the postwar era (1945–70). Specifically, this book bridges the gap between historical artistic centers, such as Paris and New York, and peripheral loci. Through case studies, previously unknown networks, circulations, divides and controversies are brought to light. From the development of Ethiopian modernism, to the showcase of Brazilian modernity, this book provides readers with a new set of coordinates and a reassessment of well-trodden art historical narratives around modernism. This book will be of interest to scholars in art historiography, art history, exhibition and curatorial studies, modern art and globalization.

Author : Nadia Nurhussein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691234625

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Black Land by Nadia Nurhussein Pdf

The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries As the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held significance for and captivated the imaginations of African Americans. In Black Land, Nadia Nurhussein delves into nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American artistic and journalistic depictions of Ethiopia, illuminating the increasing tensions and ironies behind cultural celebrations of an African country asserting itself as an imperial power. Nurhussein navigates texts by Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Harry Dean, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, George Schuyler, and others, alongside images and performances that show the intersection of African America with Ethiopia during historic political shifts. From a description of a notorious 1920 Star Order of Ethiopia flag-burning demonstration in Chicago to a discussion of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie as Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1935, Nurhussein illuminates the growing complications that modern Ethiopia posed for American writers and activists. American media coverage of the African nation exposed a clear contrast between the Pan-African ideal and the modern reality of Ethiopia as an antidemocratic imperialist state: Did Ethiopia represent the black nation of the future, or one of an inert and static past? Revising current understandings of black transnationalism, Black Land presents a well-rounded exploration of an era when Ethiopia’s presence in African American culture was at its height.

Author : Raymond Aaron Silverman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822026018432

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Ethiopia by Raymond Aaron Silverman Pdf

Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity presents the work of fifteen contemporary Ethiopian artists and essays on Ethiopia's artistic traditions by twelve scholars from various countries and academic disciplines.

Author : Bahru Zewde
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821447932

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Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia by Bahru Zewde Pdf

In this exciting new study, Bahru Zewde, one of the foremost historians of modern Ethiopia, has constructed a collective biography of a remarkable group of men and women in a formative period of their country’s history. Ethiopia’s political independence at the end of the nineteenth century put this new African state in a position to determine its own levels of engagement with the West. Ethiopians went to study in universities around the world. They returned with the skills of their education acquired in Europe and America, and at home began to lay the foundations of a new literature and political philosophy. Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia describes the role of these men and women of ideas in the social and political transformation of the young nation and later in the administration of Haile Selassie.

Author : Michael J. Subialka
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487528652

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Modernist Idealism by Michael J. Subialka Pdf

Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.

Author : Werner Sollors
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0674030915

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Ethnic Modernism by Werner Sollors Pdf

Werner Sollors's monograph looks into how African American, European immigrant and other minority writers gave the United States its increasingly multicultural self-awareness, focusing on their use of the strategies opened up by modernism.

Author : Steven S. Lee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231540117

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The Ethnic Avant-Garde by Steven S. Lee Pdf

During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called "the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter the West. Shining rare light on these efforts, The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the parameters of an undervalued "ethnic avant-garde." These writers and artists cohered around distinct forms that mirrored Soviet techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption. They orbited interwar Moscow, where the international avant-garde converged with the Communist International. The book explores Vladimir Mayakovsky's 1925 visit to New York City via Cuba and Mexico, during which he wrote Russian-language poetry in an "Afro-Cuban" voice; Langston Hughes's translations of these poems while in Moscow, which he visited to assist on a Soviet film about African American life; a futurist play condemning Western imperialism in China, which became Broadway's first major production to feature a predominantly Asian American cast; and efforts to imagine the Bolshevik Revolution as Jewish messianic arrest, followed by the slow political disenchantment of the New York Intellectuals. Through an absorbing collage of cross-ethnic encounters that also include Herbert Biberman, Sergei Eisenstein, Paul Robeson, and Vladimir Tatlin, this work remaps global modernism along minority and Soviet-centered lines, further advancing the avant-garde project of seeing the world anew.

Author : Michael Findlay
Publisher : Prestel Verlag
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783641225162

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Seeing Slowly by Michael Findlay Pdf

When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and instead trusting our own instincts, opinions, and reactions. Including reproductions of works by Mark Rothko, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Jacob Lawrence, and other modern and contemporary masters, this book takes readers on a journey through modern art. Chapters such as “What Is a Work of Art?”, “Can We Look and See at the Same Time?”, and “Real Connoisseurs Are Not Snobs,” not only give readers the confidence to form their own opinions, but also encourages them to make connections that spark curiosity, intellect, and imagination. “The most important thing for us to grasp,” writes Findlay, “is that the essence of a great work of art is inert until it is seen. Our engagement with the work of art liberates its essence.” After reading this book, even the most intimidated art viewer will enter a museum or gallery feeling more confident and leave it feeling enriched and inspired.