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Author : Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870995901
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Art of Central Africa written by Hans-Joachim Koloss and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enid Schildkrout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521586788
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Scramble for Art in Central Africa written by Enid Schildkrout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western attitudes to Africa have been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the arts and artefacts that were brought back by the early collectors, exhibited in museums, and celebrated by scholars and artists in the metropolitan centres. The contributors to this volume trace the life history of artefacts that were brought to Europe and America from Congo towards the end of the nineteenth century, and became the subjects of museum displays. They also present fascinating case studies of the pioneering collectors, including such major figures as Frobenius and Torday. They discuss the complex and sensitive issues involved in the business of 'collecting', and show how the collections and exhibitions influenced academic debates about the categories of art and artefact, and the notion of authenticity, and challenged conventional aesthetic values, as modern Western artists began to draw on African models.
Author : Constantijn Petridis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art and Power in the Central African Savanna written by Constantijn Petridis and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the powers immanent in works that the West long regarded only as exotic or abstract, Constantine Petridis looks beneath the surface of the arts of the Luba, Songye, Chokwe and Luluwa peoples to find, literally embedded in sculpture, the forces that enable the spirit world to intervene in daily life. Ritual use of these objects is expected to ensure a healthy birth, successful hunt, or triumph over an enemy. Analysis of the scholarly record illuminates the changing visions of leadership and prestige that fostered the development of the majestic, elaborate figure styles long prized in the West. These sculptures nevertheless retain the mysterious potency of more humble objects trusted for centuries to protect, heal and harm. Art and Power in the Central African Savanna examines an artistic culture in which the sacred and the secular are indivisible, and aesthetic and moral value inseparable.
Author : Daniel P. Biebuyck
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Arts of Central Africa written by Daniel P. Biebuyck and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Fagg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Art of Central Africa written by William Fagg and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392279
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Eternal Ancestors written by Barbara Drake Boehm and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many masterpieces of central African sculpture were created to amplify the power of sacred relics that affirm a family's vital connection to its ancestral heritage. This important volume, focusing on some 130 works representing a diverse variety of regional genres, illuminates the purpose and significance of these icons of African art, which first came to prominence because of their appeal to the Western avant-garde. While providing an overview of sources ranging from colonial explorers, missionaries, critics, artists, and art historians, the book breaks new ground in its examination of the complex aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of the reliquaries. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together the perspectives of scholars in African and medieval art history along with those in African history, religion, and ethnography." -- Publisher.
Author : Brooklyn Museum
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791343211
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (432 download)
Download or read book African Art written by Brooklyn Museum and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brooklyn Museum was one of the first North American institutions to collect and exhibit African material culture as art rather than artifact. Today the museum's collection numbers more than six thousand pieces and is noted for its artistic quality and educational value, as well as a breadth and depth that would be impossible to achieve today. Ancient as well as contemporary art is included in the collection's vast holdings, while the figurative sculpture and masks of Central Africa comprise its most significant focus. Nearly two hundred of those pieces are featured in this large-format compendium, which includes essays by the museum's curator of African art and a leading scholar on the subject. Taking readers through a cultural exploration of the continent, the collection encompasses regions from Western Sudan and the Southwestern Congo to the Equatorial Forest and Ethiopia. Carefully photographed and presented in luminous colour, these pieces create a stunning introduction to the rich traditions of African art and culture. AUTHORS: William Siegman served as the Brooklyn Museum's curator of African and Oceanic art from 1987 until his retirement in 2007. He is currently a consulting curator with the Saint Louis Art Museum. Joseph Adande lectures at the National University of Benin, Abomey-Calavi. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Kevin D. Dumouchelle is Interim Assistant Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands at the Brooklyn Museum. ILLUSTRATIONS 235 images
Author : Erna Beumers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kings of Africa written by Erna Beumers and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogus van een tentoonstelling over de beeldende kunst van de traditionele Midden-Afrikaanse koninkrijken.
Author : Brenda Jackson
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451607737
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Art of Central Africa written by Brenda Jackson and published by Signet. This book was released on 1968-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constantijn Petridis
Publisher : Mercatorfonds
ISBN 13 : 9780300222487
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Luluwa written by Constantijn Petridis and published by Mercatorfonds. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in the region between the Lubudi and Kasai rivers in south central Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Luluwa people are known for their elaborately carved male and female figure sculptures, masks, and decorative arts. Constantine Petridis draws on first-hand accounts of numerous explorers, missionaries, colonial servants, anthropologists, and art historians who visited the region between the 1880s and the 1970s, to comprehensively situate the Luluwa's ornate art in its original environment of production and use. Through a close study of published and unpublished sources as well as museum objects and archival photographs, this book sheds new light on the historical context of one of central Africa's most spectacular artistic legacies, whose creation presumably dates back to the second half of the 19th century. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Author : Christa Clarke
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391906
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Art of Africa written by Christa Clarke and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CD-ROM and DVD set extracted from the 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators.' The CD-ROM "contains a PDF of 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators, ' which features forty traditional works of African art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes a brief overview of the Metropolitan's collection of African art; a short introduction and history of Africa; an explanation of the role of visual expression in the continent; descriptions of the featured works of art and background about the materials and techniques that were used to created them ... The DVD, 'Ci Wara Invocation, ' "presents the highlights of a dozen ci wara performances in Bamana communities in present-day Mali that were recorded by five different observers between 1970-2002. Among the Bamana, oral traditions credit a mythical being named Ci Wara, a divine being half mortal and half antelope, with the introduction of agriculture to the Bamana. The ci wara performances are part of biannual celebrations that either launch or conclude the farming season."--Container
Download or read book Art of Central Africa: Masterpieces from the Berlin Museum Fur Volkerkunde written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Avner Shakarov
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1645369617
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia written by Avner Shakarov and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having spent a good many years as a researcher of African art, I understand that education is of critical importance. This Encyclopedia is designed to bring benefits of knowledge to students, artists, collectors and for all lovers of African traditional art and culture. Avner Shakarov introduces African art in the context of the peoples who created it. Students and artists will find this Encyclopedia: Art of Africa as a fresh handbook, thought-provoking and a good deal more scholarly than most other writings on African art. African art has taken its place among the great art traditions of the world. It was collected as souvenirs and curios by European travelers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Later, a great deal was written about its influence on Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and other western artists. This book is well researched and studied in the rich heritage of black Africa through its most distinctive form, sculpture, and covers the entire continent. The book contains 95 images of African art, 30 tribal and village photos, 16 drawings and 5 maps to help locate geographically the peoples who created the works of art.
Author : Vanessa Drake Moraga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874050356
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Weaving Abstraction written by Vanessa Drake Moraga and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Kings of Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christraud M. Geary
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780856675522
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (755 download)
Download or read book In and Out of Focus written by Christraud M. Geary and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accompanies an exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, on the role of photography in Central Africa. This is the first book to link two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas, and sentiments in Europe and the US relating to the peoples of Central Africa; and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project images of themselves by becoming familiar with photographic technology. Broad in thematic and temporal scope, the book focuses on several time periods, especially on the years before and between the two world wars. This is also the first publication devoted to the important holdings of the Eliot Elisofen Photographic Archives, a department of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution and a unique repository with more than 200,000 historical and contemporary images from all over Africa. This book raises important issues associated with photographic practice in Africa, the distribution of images, the circulation of ideas in Europe and the US, and African responses to photography through several poignant case studies. This book also advances the scholarly discourse on colonial/anthropological photography, and contributes to a better understanding of African responses to photography.
Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Masterpieces from Central Africa written by Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Treasures of the Tervuren Museum held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa in 1996-97.
