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Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Tervuren, Belgique)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:762593411
Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale
Publisher : Wasmuth
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 9061747767
Author : Zdenka Volavka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000828439
Author : Raymond Silverman,George Abungu,Peter Probst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000428643
National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives. Covering all regions of the continent, the volume’s thirteen chapters allow for a deep and nuanced understanding of the intricate interplay between past and present in contemporary Africa. Taking stock of the shifting museum landscape in Africa, with new players like China and South Korea challenging the conditions of cultural exchange, the book demonstrates that national museums are being rediscovered as important sites of political engagement and cultural negotiation. This is the first book to critically examine the roles national museums in Africa have played in the societies in which they are situated, but it is also the first to consider the roles that national museums might play in current debates concerning the restitution and repatriation of cultural patrimony taken from Africa during the colonial era. Informed by a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, this ground-breaking book will appeal to anyone interested in museums in Africa. It will be particularly useful to scholars and students working in the areas of museum and heritage studies, African studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, art history and cultural studies.
Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale,Gustaaf Verswijver
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Africana Museum (Johannesburg, South Africa),Anna H. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 0868430099
Author : Aïcha Ben Abed Ben Khader
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892368578
As the Roman Empire expanded its African settlements in the early centuries of the common era, thousands of mosaic floor pavements were fashioned to adorn the townhouses and rural estates of the African upper classes. Between the second and sixth centuries, mosaic art blossomed, particularly in Africa Proconsularis, the region comprising modern Tunisia. In contrast to the official art of imperial Rome, mosaics generally expressed the worldviews of private citizens. These artworks are remarkable for the intricate beauty of their polychromatic geometric and floral designs, as well as for figural scenes depicting the interests and activities of the patrons who commissioned them--scenes of daily life, athletic contests, gladiator spectacles, and classical literature and mythology. Abundantly illustrated throughout, Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from Roman Africa offers the general reader a lively introduction to this extraordinary ancient art. Initial chapters survey the historical background of Roman Africa and discuss the development of mosaic art in the Mediterranean. Subsequent chapters profile Tunisia's major mosaic sites and tour the collections of important museums. A final chapter surveys current initiatives to preserve this heritage for future generations.
Author : Sarah Van Beurden
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Zdeňka Volavková-Shořepová
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:1193940416
Author : Clémentine Deliss
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783775748018
For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot continue. That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores in her current publication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically-informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropology. Reflections on her own work while she was Director of Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) are interwoven with the explorations of influential filmmakers, artists and writers. She introduces the Metabolic Museum as an interventionist laboratory for remediating ethnographic collections for future generations. CLÉMENTINE DELISS has achieved international renown as a curator, cultural historian and publisher of artist's books. In her role as Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, as a curator, and as a professor and researcher at eminent institutes and academies, she focuses on transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges. She is Associate Curator of KW Berlin and Guest Professor at the Academy of Arts, Hamburg.
Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Chiwaura, Henry
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789956792825
One of the central theoretical and practical issues in post-colonial Africa is the relevance, nature, and politics at play in the management of museum institutions on the continent. Most African museums were established during the 19th and 20th centuries as European imperialists were spreading their colonial tentacles across the continent. The attainment of political independence has done little to undo or correct the obnoxious situation. Most African countries continue to practice colonial museology despite surging scholarship and calls by some Afro-centric and critical scholars the world over to address the quandaries on the continent's museum institutions. There is thus an unresolved struggle between the past and the present in the management of museums in Africa. In countries such as Zimbabwe, the struggle in museum management has been precipitated by the sharp economic downturn that has gripped the country since the turn of the millennium. In view of all these glitches, this book tackles the issue of the management of heritage in Zimbabwe. The book draws on the findings by scholars and researchers from different academic orientations and backgrounds to advance the thesis that museums and museology in Zimbabwe face problems of epic proportions that require urgent attention. It makes insightful suggestions on possible solutions to the tapestry of the inexorably enigmatic amalgam of complex problems haunting museum institutions in Zimbabwe, calling for a radical transformation of museology as a discipline in the process. This book should appeal to policy makers, scholars, researchers and students from disciplines such as museology, archaeology, social-cultural anthropology, and culture and heritage studies.
Author : Zdeňka Volavková-Shořepová,Zdenka Volavka,York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : 0919604021
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691182681
Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
