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Author : Robert Brain
Publisher : London : Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art and Society in Africa written by Robert Brain and published by London : Longman. This book was released on 1980 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Vansina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317869036
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Art History in Africa written by J. Vansina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader with a systematic method for the historical understanding of African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique, style and meaning of art objects and examines the creative process through which they come into being. Numerous photographs and drawings illustrate his arguments, and help to explain the changes that have taken place.
Author : Alexandre Marc
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821341952
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book African Art written by Alexandre Marc and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African artistic expression has helped to construct culture, form social identity, and support spiritual communication. The choice of the World Bank's African collection for a catalogue stems from the recognition by many art experts that the Bank is home to a rich and valuable collection that deserves to be better known by staff, representatives from member countries, and the public at large. The book displays African art from past to present, African art at the World Bank, and African art and society.
Author : Romola Adeola
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030301028
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Art of Human Rights written by Romola Adeola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the use of art in human rights, specifically within Africa. It advances an innovative pattern of thinking that explores the intersection between art and human rights law. In recent years, art has become an important tool for engagement on several human rights issues. In view of its potency, and yet potential to be a danger when misused, this book seeks to articulate the use of arts in the human rights discourse in its different forms. Chapters cover how music, photography, literature, photojournalism, soap opera, commemorations, sculpting and theatre can be used as an expression of human rights. This book demonstrates how arts have become a formidable expression of thoughts and a means of articulating reality in a form that simplifies truth and congregates resolve to advance change.
Author : Judith von D. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art in East Africa written by Judith von D. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralf G. Will
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465359438
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Role of the Artist in Society written by Ralf G. Will and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique interview book stems from the days when South Africa`s notorious Apartheid regime collapsed. It was written in January of 1988 and I present the talks as they were recorded then. It brought me straight into the heart of the cultural resistance while simultaenously revising anthropological research, too. I looked at the contribution the Arts could play in terminating racial segregation and asked respondents if they would use their creative activity in this regard rather than practicing Art-for-Arts-sake? The book includes a detailed bibliography, a comprehensive set of footnotes and a black and white photo of respondents.
Author : Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas written by Janet Catherine Berlo and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on the original scholarly contributions, rather than secondary description, this reader in tribal arts exposes the reader to the best original scholarship of 29 noted scholars in anthropology and art history. Each scholarly essay is well-illustrated, often with original field photographs as well as museum objects. For artists, art historians, sociologists, and all those interested in the arts of the fourth world.
Author : Gitti Salami
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444338374
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Modern African Art written by Gitti Salami and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art
Author : René A. Bravmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521201926
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa written by René A. Bravmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-05-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most writers have assumed that the spread of the Islamic faith has tended to weaken and undermine the foundations of traditional African society and culture. In this interesting and original study Professor Bravmann re-examines and refutes the assumption that the aniconic attitudes of Islam, especially the prohibition of representational imagery, have had a detrimental effect on the visual arts in the areas of West Africa influenced by this universalistic faith. The strength and flexibility of West African societies and their art forms is clearly revealed in the major part of this study, which is devoted to a detailed examination of the impact of Islam upon traditional art in the Cercle de Bondoukou and west central areas of Ghana. The text is illustrated with numerous photographs showing a variety of art forms and masquerades in the region.
Author : Katy Deepwell
Publisher : Eastern Art Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art Criticism and Africa written by Katy Deepwell and published by Eastern Art Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of African Art and Society Series, this book focuses on contemporary art and art criticism in Africa in general and in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt in particular.
Author : Patrick J. Ebewo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443864633
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Africa and Beyond written by Patrick J. Ebewo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural industry. The combined effect of the volume is to disabuse the fixed, prevailing conception of the role of culture in society; a view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life, devoid of any meaningful contribution to the alleviation of poverty and general development. Contrary to this view, the volume presents a more comprehensive, meaningful, insightful set of perspectives and paradigms that ascribe agency to creative/cultural products in all facets of human development. The usefulness of the volume extends beyond the industry itself. It is meant for a broader readership and is therefore highly recommended for specialists and the public at large.” – Professor Mokubung Nkomo, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007585
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book African Art and Agency in the Workshop written by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Compelling case studies demonstrate how African workshops have long mediated collective expression and individual imagination.” —Allen F. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles The role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this revelatory book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and creative expression flourishes. African Art and Agency in the Workshop examines the variety of workshops, from those which are politically driven or tourist oriented, to those based on historical patronage or allied to current artistic trends. Fifteen lively essays explore the impact of the workshop on the production of artists such as Zimbabwean stone sculptors, master potters from Cameroon, wood carvers from Nigeria, and others from across the continent. Contributions by Nicolas Argenti, Jessica Gershultz, Norma Wolff, Christine Scherer, Silvia Forni, Elizabeth Morton, Alexander Bortolot, Brenda Schmahmann, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Karen E. Milbourne and Namubiru Rose Kirumira “A closer examination of the workshop provides important insights into art histories and cultural politics. We may think we know what we mean when we use the term ‘workshop,’ but in fact the organization of groups of artists takes on vastly different forms and encourages the production of diverse styles of art within larger social structures and power dynamics.” —Victoria Rovine, University of Florida “Taken as a whole, the case studies provide a wide window into the very diverse structural and functional characteristics of workshops. They also clearly describe how African workshops have served both contemporary political and cultural needs and have responded to patronage, whether it be traditional or stimulated by tourism.” —African Studies Review
Author : Whitechapel Art Gallery
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa written by Whitechapel Art Gallery and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Monica Blackmun Visonà
Publisher : Discontinued 3pd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A History of Art in Africa written by Monica Blackmun Visonà and published by Discontinued 3pd. This book was released on 2001 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by the latest scholarship yet written for the general reader, this is the first comprehensive book to present the arts of Africa in art-historical terms. The authors treat individual pieces as tangible manifestations of changing beliefs and customs, as products of complex cultural interactions, as expressions of historical and economic realities, and as creations of gifted individuals, and in so doing brilliantly offer up African art on its own terms. Organized in five major parts, A History of Art in Africa covers every corner of the continent, including Egypt, from prehistory to the present day and includes the art of the African diaspora. The Islamic influence and the Christian arts of Ethiopia and Nubia are treated as fully African expressions, as are tourist arts and the fascinating hybrid art that periodically arose from interaction with Europe. All art forms are given equal consideration: from such familiar categories as sculpture to such quintessentially African forms as masquerades, festivals, and personal and domestic adornment. The arts of daily life, of royal ceremony, and of state cosmology also receive compelling discussions. And throughout, the authors emphasize the cultural contexts in which art is produced and imbued with meaning. Contemporary art forms are explored both as part of the living splendors of modern Africa and as ingenious responses to the experience of diaspora. The illustrations present a vast and rich range of images, including superb colorplates of artworks, archival and contemporary field photographs, explanatory drawings and plans, and individual objects displayed in museums and in use. Book jacket.
Author : Marion I. Arnold
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art in Eastern Africa written by Marion I. Arnold and published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, initiated in Africa, is the first in a series in bringing together leading artists, designers and scholars from the East Africa region, illustrating how visually creative people in Eastern Africa expressed themselves in the past through art and artefacts, and how some contemporary artists and designers respond to the world within and beyond Africa. A major education initiative, the book is edited by Marion Arnold, who has written extensively on Southern African art and has many years of university-level teaching experience."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Delinda Collier
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012315
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Media Primitivism written by Delinda Collier and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jean-Baptiste Bacquart
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500018705
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The Tribal Arts of Africa written by Jean-Baptiste Bacquart and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of more than two millennia of African art describes the society and culture of forty-nine African tribes and presents seven hundred examples of their art, from ritualistic items to common utensils
