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The Visual Arts of Africa
Author | : Judith Perani,Fred. T. Smith |
Publsiher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : 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.
Visual Arts in Cameroon
Author | : Schemmel, Annette |
Publsiher | : Langaa RPCIG |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2016-02-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789956763603 |
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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.
The Visual Arts of Africa
Author | : Judith Perani,Fred. T. Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Art, Black |
ISBN | : 019060168X |
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"This is a textbook for undergraduate students taking courses in the art history of Africa"--
An Annotated Bibliography of the Visual Arts of East Africa
Author | : Eugene C. Burt |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 025317225X |
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"... a landmark in the academic study of African art.... a remarkably useful bibliography... warmly recommended." --African Arts "... this workmanlike compilation... [is] admirable." --Choice
Africa
Author | : Tom Phillips |
Publsiher | : Prestel Pub |
Total Pages | : 615 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 3791320041 |
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This magnificent celebration of the world's oldest and most diverse artistic traditions is considered the definitive book on African art. Ranging from the oldest known human artifact, circa 1.6 million BC, to pieces made within living memory, the objects collected in this extraordinary volume reflect a continent of enormous cultural and historical scope. Arranged chronologically within seven geographical sections, it offers an astonishing array of sculptures in wood, bronze, stone, and gold, as well as rock paintings, ceremonial pieces, ceramics, jewelry, and textiles culled from private and public collections around the world. Commentary by renowned scholars illuminates the cultural and historical significance of these pieces, and in-depth authoritative texts highlight critical aspects of each region. Together these words and images take readers on an artistic grand tour through a continent of unparalleled diversity, and towards the thrilling discovery of not one Africa, but many.
Media Primitivism
Author | : Delinda Collier |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2020-09-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781478012313 |
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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.
The Visual Arts
Author | : Justine M. Cordwell |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783110810240 |
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Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of C d Ivoire
Author | : Monica Blackmun Visonà |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781351571128 |
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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.