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Arts d'Afrique

Author : Musée d'Aquitaine de la ville de Bordeaux
Publisher : Hazan
ISBN 13 : 9782754105552
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Arts d'Afrique written by Musée d'Aquitaine de la ville de Bordeaux and published by Hazan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En réunissant plus de 200 oeuvres d’art exceptionnelles – pour la plupart jamais présentées au public – provenant de grandes collections privées et publiques européennes, le musée d’Aquitaine à Bordeaux propose, à travers l’exposition Arts d’Afrique, voir l’invisible du 21 mars 2011 au 21 août 2011, une lecture originale de la création africaine. Son rapport à l’invisible, révélateur d’une vision du monde singulière, est indispensable pour comprendre et découvrir les richesses passées et présentes des cultures du continent africain. Un premier espace couvre les principales aires culturelles de production des masques. Il présente des ensembles complets de masques avec costumes exceptionnels. Le deuxième espace évoque la spécificité de la statuaire africaine également perçue comme agent de communicatio avec l’invisible qui se manifeste entre autres au travers de rituels de protection ou de guérison; Le dernier espace traite de différents accessoires (boîtes,paniers, plateaux, figurines, cloches, talismans, agrégats...)qui, entre les mains des praticiens, permettent le contact avec l’invisible et restent des instruments énigmatiques. L’authenticité, la représentativité et le caractère inédit des oeuvres ont guidé le choix des objets provenant de musées français et européens (Quai Branly, Tervuren, Neuchâtel, Dapper) et de collectionneurs privés qui ont consenti des prêts exceptionnels au musée d’Aquitaine.

The African Dwelling

Author : Epée Ellong
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673802
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The African Dwelling written by Epée Ellong and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing has changed in Sub-Saharan Africa since the Europeans arrived. Africans no longer live in traditional homes. This historical transition from "hut to house," from traditional to Western style, reflects slavery, colonialism and other social influences. This book focuses on Cameroon, known as "Africa in Miniature" because of its geographical and cultural representation of the continent at large. Architectural styles, materials and construction techniques are discussed within a larger context, examining how lifestyle changes and architectural trends influence each other. This work is a rich examination of the challenges and opportunities for a new generation of African architects to integrate the lessons of the past and create a future more responsive to the region's needs.

Heroic Africans

Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588394328
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Heroic Africans written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Africa in Antiquity. The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112718054
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Africa in Antiquity. The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan written by and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 1979-12-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Africa in Antiquity. The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan".

Contesting Art

Author : Jeremy MacClancy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000325644
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Art written by Jeremy MacClancy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups reinforce their challenged sense of culture.This pioneering book breaks with the tradition of the anthropology of art as the depoliticized study of aesthetics in exotic settings. Transcending artificial distinctions between the West and the Rest, it examines the increasingly significant relations among art, identity and politics in the modern world.Among the themes investigated by the contributors: - how African painters undermine racist stereotypes yet remain dominated by the Western art market - the role of anthropology museums in the perpetuation of the Western market in 'tribal art' - the internal and external political disputes underlying the 'repatriation' of cultural property.

Perfect Documents

Author : Virginia-Lee Webb
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999397
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Documents written by Virginia-Lee Webb and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metropolitan Fetish

Author : John Warne Monroe
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501736361
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Fetish written by John Warne Monroe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines, through the doors of the Louvre, to world fairs and international auction rooms; into the apartments of avant-garde critics and poets; to the streets of Harlem, and then full-circle back to colonial museums and schools in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan. John Warne Monroe guides us on this journey, one that goes far beyond the world of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, to show how the Modernist avant-garde and the European colonial project influenced each other in profound and unexpected ways. Metropolitan Fetish reveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of cultural and imperial power. A broad and far-reaching history of the French reception of African art, it brings to life an era in which the aesthetic category of "primitive art" was invented.

Eternal Ancestors

Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392279
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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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.

Primitive

Author : Jo Odgers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134172443
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Primitive written by Jo Odgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive. The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the many myths of architecture's origins. Since the almost legendary 1970s conference on the Primitive, with the advent of post-modernism and, in particular, post-colonialism, the word has fallen from favour in many disciplines. Despite this, architects continue to use the word to mythologize and reify the practice of simplicity. Primitive includes contributions from some of today’s leading architectural commentators including Dalibor Vesely, Adrian Forty, David Leatherbarrow, Richard Weston and Richard Coyne. Structured around five sections, Negotiating Origins; Urban Myths; Questioning Colonial Constructs; Making Marks; and Primitive Futures, the essays highlight the problematic nature of ideas of the primitive, engage with contemporary debate in the field of post colonialism and respond to a burgeoning interest in the non-expert architecture. This now controversial subject remains, for better or worse, intrinsic to the very structure of Modernism and deeply embedded in architectural theory. Considering a broad range of approaches, this book provides a rounded past, present and future of the word primitive in the architectural sphere.

African Art and Agency in the Workshop

Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007410
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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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 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Webster Plass Collection of African Art

Author : William Buller Fagg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Webster Plass Collection of African Art written by William Buller Fagg and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration

Author : Max Carocci
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350248452
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration written by Max Carocci and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cultures of the past. Bringing together art historians and anthropologists, it presents a selection of detailed case studies of various bodies of work produced by non-Western and Western artists from different world regions and from different time periods (from Native North America, Cameroon, and Nepal, to Italy, Solomon Islands, and Mexico) to explore the contemporary relevance and challenges implicit in artistic renditions of past peoples and places. In an age when identities are partially constructed on the basis of existing visual records, the book asks important questions about the nature of observation and the inclusion of culturally-relevant information in artistic representations. How reliable are watercolours, paintings, or sketches for the understanding of past ways of life? How do old images of bygone peoples relate to art historical and anthropological canons? How have these images and technologies of representation been used to describe, illustrate, or explain unknown realities? The book is an essential tool for art historians, anthropologists, and anyone who wants to understand how the observation of different realities has impacted upon the production of art and visual cultures. Incorporating current methodological and theoretical tools, the 10 chapters collected here expand the area of connection between the disciplines of art history and anthropology, bringing into sharp focus the multiple intersections of objectivity, evidence, and artistic licence.

Historical Dictionary of Benin

Author : Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810871718
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Benin written by Mathurin C. Houngnikpo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benin is now perceived of as a model of democracy in Africa because it has successfully established a democratic political system based on consensus and regular and fair elections, and it continues to improve its electoral and parliamentary systems. Since its democracy it has taken important steps towards laying the foundation for the rule of law by establishing stable political institutions that can withstand the test of time. It has also engaged in an important legal, institutional, and regulatory reform to establish a more favorable environment for private initiative. The fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Benin covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Benin.

African Arts

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book African Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pot-King

Author : Jean-Pierre Warnier
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422708
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Pot-King written by Jean-Pierre Warnier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king of Mankon, in the western highlands of Cameroon, is an agricultural engineer by training, a businessman, and a prominent politician on the national stage. He partakes in the “return of the kings” in the forefront of an African public space. This book analyses the principles of the sacred kingship which lie at the core of the king’s different roles. While showing that the king’s body acts as a container of bodily substances transformed into unifying ancestral life-essence by appropriate means, and bestowed upon its subjects, it develops an innovative approach to bodily and material cultures as an essential component of the technologies of power. In so doing, it departs significantly from previous approaches to sacred kingship.

The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary

Author : Simon Dell
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702152
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary written by Simon Dell and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they were spreading republican ideals to the colonies to make a Greater France. In this book Simon Dell explores the various roles played by portraiture in this colonial imaginary. Anyone interested in the history of colonial Africa will have encountered innumerable portraits of African elites produced during the first half of the twentieth century, yet no book to date has focused on these ubiquitous images. Dell analyses the production and dissemination of such portraits and situates them in a complex and conflicted field of representations. Moving between European and African perspectives, The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary blends history with art history to provide insights into the larger processes that were transforming the French metropole and colonies during the early twentieth century. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Historical Dictionary of Chad

Author : Mario J. Azevedo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538114372
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Chad written by Mario J. Azevedo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having achieved its independence from France in 1960, Chad has run into a serious crises of national building, which have continued to haunt it to the present day, making it one of the poorest and most politically unstable countries on the globe. Chad is a country with sharp geographic and climatic contrasts that puzzle and fascinate the visitor, displaying first a monotonous but majestic portion of the Saharan Desert in the north, punctuated by plains and high altitudes displayed by the Tibesti mountains, where the highest point, Emi Koussi, reaches 11,204 ft.; the middle Central Sahelian zone, where pastoral transhumance lifestyle predominates but where and nut cultivation and harvesting is possible; and an endowed southern tropical zone where the forest and the savanna meet, blessed by several long-running rivers, most notably, the Logone and the Chari that empty their waters into centuries-old Lake Chad. Even though things in Chad seem to have improved during the past 10 years, most observers agree that the path to peace, reconstruction, and economic progress is still long and arduous. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chad.