The Visual Arts Of Africa

Author : Judith Perani,Fred. T. Smith
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050817587

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Special features of this book: follows a geographical organization across the continent; each chapter is reader friendly with clear, accessible sub-headings; represents important religious and utilitarian art traditions from the Sahara desert, West Africa, Central Africa, Northeast Africa, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa; gives special attention to the themes of gender, power, and life cycle rituals, which frequently intersect with one another to form an understanding of the arts of Africa; includes figurative sculpture, masquerades, architecture, textiles, dress, ceramics, wall painting, and leatherwork traditions; includes selected examples of the earliest known documented art works as well as contemporary art of each geographical region; includes an up-to-date bibliography, incorporating recent published field research for each chapter; and features 369 black and white illustrations, 16 colored plates, maps, and a time line.

Author : Judith Perani,Fred. T. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Art, Black
ISBN : 019060168X

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"This is a textbook for undergraduate students taking courses in the art history of Africa"--

Author : Eugene C. Burt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : 025317225X

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An Annotated Bibliography of the Visual Arts of East Africa by Eugene C. Burt Pdf

"... a landmark in the academic study of African art.... a remarkably useful bibliography... warmly recommended." --African Arts "... this workmanlike compilation... [is] admirable." --Choice

Author : Schemmel, Annette
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789956763603

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Visual Arts in Cameroon by Schemmel, Annette Pdf

Annette Schemmel provides a highly illuminating case study of the major actors, discourses and paradigm that shaped the history of visual arts in Cameroon during the second part of the 20th century. Her book meticulously reconstructs the multiple ways of artistic knowledge acquisition - from the consolidation of the "Système de Grands Frères" in the 1970s to the emergence of more discursively oriented small artists' initiatives which responded to the growing NGO market of social practice art opportunities in the 2000s. Based on archival research, participant observation and in depth interviews with art practitioners in Douala and Yaoundé, this study is a must read for everyone who wants to better understand the vibrant artistic scenes in countries like Cameroon, which until today lack a proper state-funded infrastructure in the arts.

Author : Olu Oguibe,Okwui Enwezor
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028533532

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Reading the Contemporary by Olu Oguibe,Okwui Enwezor Pdf

In the past decade, contemporary African art has been featured in major exhibtions in museums, galleries, international biennials, and other forums. African cinema has established itself on the stage of world cinema, culminating in the Ouagadougou Film Festival. While African art and visual culture have become an integral part of the art history and cultural studies curricula in universities worldwide, critical readings and interpretations have remained difficult to obtain. This pioneering anthology collects twenty key essays in which major critical thinkers, scholars, and artists explore contemporary African visual culture, locating it within current cultural debates and within the context of the continent's history. The sections of the book are Theory and Cultural Transaction, History, Location and Practice, and Negotiated Identities. Copublished with the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London

Author : Tobias Döring
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042013109

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African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum by Tobias Döring Pdf

From the contents: Christine MATZKE: Comrades in arts and arms: stories of wars and watercolours from Eritrea. - Sabine MARSCHALL: Positioning the other': reception and interpretation of contemporary black South African artists. - Kristine ROOME: The art of liberating voices: contemporary South African art exhibited in New York. - Jonathan ZILBERG: Shona sculpture and documenta 2002: reflections on exclusions.

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : London ; New York : Longman
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822001995216

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Art History in Africa by Jan Vansina Pdf

First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Delinda Collier
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478012313

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Media Primitivism by Delinda Collier Pdf

In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh’s Ta’abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extractive mining and electricity. Collier reorients modern African art within a larger constellation of philosophies of aesthetics and technology, demonstrating how pivotal artworks transcend the distinctions between the constructed and the elemental, thereby expanding ideas about mediation and about what African art can do.

Author : Justine M. Cordwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110810240

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The Visual Arts by Justine M. Cordwell Pdf

Author : Monica Blackmun Visonà
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351571128

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Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of C?d'Ivoire by Monica Blackmun Visonà Pdf

Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of C?d'Ivoire is an investigation of the methods employed by art historians who study creative production in Africa. While providing insights into the rich visual arts of the Lagoon Peoples of southeastern C?d'Ivoire, this study is one of the few attempts by an Africanist to situate local and regional artistic practices in the context of the global art market, and to trace the varied receptions an African art work is given as it leaves a local context and enters an international one. Drawing on her three seasons of fieldwork among Akan populations in C?d'Ivoire, Monica Blackmun Vison?rovides a comprehensive account of a major art-producing region of Africa, and explores such topics as gender roles in performance, the role of sculpture in divination, and the interchange of arts and ideas across ethnic boundaries. The book also addresses issues inherent in research practices, such as connoisseurship and participant observation, and examines theoretical positions that have had an impact on the discipline of African art history.

Author : Whitechapel Art Gallery
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038434786

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Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa by Whitechapel Art Gallery Pdf

An exhibition organised by the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London as part of africa95, a season celebrating the arts of Africa taking place in Britain from August to December 1995. Concept and General Editor: Clementine Deliss.

Author : Hugh Honour,John Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000054192942

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The Visual Arts by Hugh Honour,John Fleming Pdf

For one/two semester undergraduate Art History survey courses. Hailed as the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey published in a single volume, this new edition is an authoritative, balanced, and enlightened account of the history of art. It presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas-spanning from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to the most controversial art forms of today. The text is beautifully and generously illustrated with over 1400 superb photographs, including architectural plans and color maps.

Author : Kathryn Gunsch
Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878468641

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Arts of Africa by Kathryn Gunsch Pdf

Presents the best of the collection of African art and artefacts held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The African art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a portal into the life and politics of a large and complex continent with a wealth of history and culture. The highlighted works in this volume have been selected to illuminate different societies and periods, and to offer an introduction to traditions within the wider field of African art. They are presented through the framework of their original contexts: refined bronze sculptures made for royal palaces, spiritual figures powerfully rendered in wood or stone for shrines, vibrant luxury textiles, masks for public celebrations, art made for export, and trenchant contemporary photography intended for global art markets. By examining the places where these objects were first encountered by viewers - the palaces of Mangbetu kings, the busy streets of Lagos, or a gallery in London - vivid stories emerge about who made, paid for, used and enjoyed these artworks. Taken together, they evoke the brilliance and variety of artistic traditions across a vast continent.

Author : Judith von D. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015006317450

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Art in East Africa by Judith von D. Miller Pdf

Author : Mary Clare Kidenda,Lize Kriel,Ernst Wagner
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783830945239

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Visual Cultures of Africa by Mary Clare Kidenda,Lize Kriel,Ernst Wagner Pdf

The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to embodied performances by dancers and storytellers, even re-designed models of Western cars. Educators, designers, artists, critics, curators, and custodians based both in Africa and in Europe are configuring spaces for public, private, institutional as well as digital conversation – whether through pottery or portraiture, furniture or film, shoes or selfies, buildings or books. Readers are encouraged to question how African visual cultures are both ‘in’ and ‘of’; identifying and confrontational; post- and decolonial; preserved and practised; old and new; borrowed and authentic; composite and complete; rooted and soaring. Disciplines being engaged include visual culture studies, media studies, performance studies, orature, literature, art and design – as well as their histories. The editors Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel and Ernst Wagner represent three nodes in the Exploring Visual Cultures north-south collaborative network: The Technical University of Kenya, the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany.