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Author : Jacqueline Fry
Publisher : [Paris,] : Gallimard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arts et peuples de l'Afrique noire written by Jacqueline Fry and published by [Paris,] : Gallimard. This book was released on 1967 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel J. Sherman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226752690
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975 written by Daniel J. Sherman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, the idea of primitivism has motivated artistic modernism. Focusing on the three decades after World War II, known in France as “les trentes glorieuses” despite the loss of most of the country’s colonial empire, this probing and expansive book argues that primitivism played a key role in a French society marked by both economic growth and political turmoil. In a series of chapters that consider significant aspects of French culture—including the creation of new museums of French folklore and of African and Oceanic arts and the development of tourism against the backdrop of nuclear testing in French Polynesia—Daniel J. Sherman shows how primitivism, a collective fantasy born of the colonial encounter, proved adaptable to a postcolonial, inward-looking age of mass consumption. Following the likes of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Andrée Putman, and Jean Dubuffet through decorating magazines, museum galleries, and Tahiti’s pristine lagoons, this interdisciplinary study provides a new perspective on primitivism as a cultural phenomenon and offers fresh insights into the eccentric edges of contemporary French history.
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 : Avner Shakarov
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786498749
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Traditional African Art written by Avner Shakarov and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of sub-Saharan Africa reveals the marvelous achievements of unknown artists over thousands of years. Their aesthetic ideal finds form in wood, ivory, fabric, bronze and iron. This illustrated study of traditional African art includes pieces from Western Sudan, the Congolese Basin, the Guinea coast, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and East and South Africa. Each piece is characterized by its own traditions and artistic forms. The earliest works date from the beginning of the first millennium, the most recent from the early 20th century. Unique and rare examples are documented, many heretofore virtually unknown.
Author : Daniel P. Biebuyck
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520020856
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Lega Culture; Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy Among a Central African People written by Daniel P. Biebuyck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Highland boy discovers he has the gift of Second Sight.
Author : Jacqueline Delange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Arts et peuples de l'Afrique noire written by Jacqueline Delange and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Plutôt qu'histoire des arts plastiques négro-africains, matériaux pour une telle histoire. " Ainsi, dans sa préface, Michel Leiris présente-t-il cet ouvrage. Jacqueline Delange restitue l'univers esthétique de l'Afrique noire. Elle dresse l'inventaire des formes, fondé sur la répartition des divers peuples en groupes dont l'unité culturelle est reconnue; elle replace les genres, les styles, dans le milieu humain où ils ont pris naissance, et combine l'approche ethnologique et la saisie proprement esthétique des réalisations. Sans négliger le contexte sociologique et historique, elle s'efforce de retrouver d'abord la permanence de la main du créateur et, autant qu'il est possible, l'intention derrière cette main. Alors se déploient devant nous les multiples liens qui font des objets un vaste contrepoint des projets
Author : Seán Hand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521495745
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Michel Leiris written by Seán Hand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study in English of Michel Leiris's work. Frequently cited as a central figure in contemporary French culture, Seán Hand explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth century; surrealism, ethnography and existentialism. Hand locates his writing in these different contexts in relation to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period. He goes on to argue that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography stands as the model form of self-enquiry in the twentieth century.
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588390748
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Genesis written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventy-five masterpieces presented here, drawn from public and private American collections, are among the most celebrated icons of African art, works that are superb artistic creations as well as expressions of a society's most profound conceptions about its beginnings. All are reproduced in color and are accompanied by entries that illuminate the distinctive cultural contexts that inspired their creation and informed their appreciation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069352
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Black Paris written by Bennetta Jules-Rosette and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Paris documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. Based on long-term ethnographic, archival, and historical research, the work is enriched by interviews with many writers of the new generation. Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores African writing and identity in France from the early n gritude movement and the founding of the Pr sence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s. Examining the relationship between African writing and French anthropology as well as the emergence of new styles and discourses, Jules-Rosette covers French Pan-Africanism and the revolutionary writing of the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses the new generation of African writers who appeared in Paris during the 1980s and 1990s.
Author : Laure Meyer
Publisher : Vilo International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Art and Craft in Africa written by Laure Meyer and published by Vilo International. This book was released on 1995 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyer offers a splendidly illustrated survey of everyday, primarily utilitarian objects -- furnishings, culinary utensils, textiles, jewelry, weapons, musical instruments, games, pipes, and regalia -- chosen for beauty of design, ornamentation, or display.
Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208729
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Africa written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of African Historical Studies "To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing." --American Anthropologist "Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced." --Ivan Karp A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa, this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.
Author : N'Goné Fall
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Anthology of African Art written by N'Goné Fall and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2002 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "Modern African Art" is not an abuse of language. The 20th century has seen, but not properly documented, the birth, development, and maturation of contemporary art in sub-Saharan Africa, an art which was not simply imported in the 1950s but which finds its sources both in colonial realities and in local cultures and civilizations. Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century does not propose to document any one African art, but rather to open up this vast but underexplored field to include a diverse theoretical, historical, geographical, and critical map of this dense and ancient region. Contributions by more than 30 international authors recount the birth of art schools in the 1930s, the development of urban design and public art, and the importance of socially-concerned art during the Independence movements. From Ethiopia, Nigeria, and the Belgian Congo to Ghana, Senegal, and Angola, through the works of hundreds of artists working in every conceivable medium and context, this anthology manages the continental and unique feat of providing a thorough, expansive, diversified, and fully illustrated history of African art in the 20th century. Since 1991, Paris-based Revue Noire Editions has dedicated itself to the multidisciplinary artistic production of the African continent and the African diaspora. Publishers of the critically-acclaimed An Anthology of African Photography, a comprehensive chronicle of African photography from the mid-1800s to the present, Revue Noire also produces a self-titled magazine devoted to contemporary African art and culture.
Author : Eugenia W. Herbert
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299096045
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Red Gold of Africa written by Eugenia W. Herbert and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa. Researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy.
Author : Stanley B. Alpern
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814707726
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition written by Stanley B. Alpern and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a 'small black Sparta,' residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Updated with a new preface by the author, Amazons of Black Sparta is the product of meticulous archival research and Alpern's gift for narrative. It will stand as the most comprehensive and accessible account of the woman warriors of Dahomey.
Author : Sylvia Ardyn Boone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300048612
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Radiance from the Waters written by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body. This is a beautiful and beautifully written book. ... Boone writes in ways that reveal her evident devotion to Mende culture.--John Picton, African Affairs A major contribution to our ethnographic understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies encode cultural messages about gender relations.--E. Frances White, Women's Review of Books A respectful approach to [the mysteries of the Sande], by an art historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread. Radiance from the Waters deserves to be read. ... It provides something more interesting than esoteric knowledge: an extended meditation on notions of beauty and decorum and the way in which these can be translated simultaneously into art and ... advancement for women.--John Ryle, London Review of Books The first text to illuminate the power of the feminine aesthetic in West African art.--Ms.
Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939127
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Mudimbe Reader written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of knowledge and for his critiques of a range of disciplines, from classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history from this essential postcolonial thinker, including new translations of essays previously unavailable in English. Constituting an intellectual history of the humanities in the late twentieth century from an African intellectual’s point of view, The Mudimbe Reader provides an introduction and a comprehensive bibliography that frame four thematic gatherings of Mudimbe’s writings. Part 1 bears witness to Mudimbe’s attempts, as a university professor in the new nation-state of Zaire, to balance the postindependence discourse of authenticity with his training in Western philosophy and philology. Part 2 focuses on Mudimbe’s exploration of racial, ethnic, and religious discourses to reflect upon postcolonialism in Zaire and in the United States. In the third part, Mudimbe interrogates ancient Greek and Latin texts as a strategy to engage the legacy of antiquity for European and African modernity. Finally, the book concludes by focusing on visual culture and Mudimbe’s recurring attempt to elucidate how African "primitiveness" has been constructed, challenged, dismissed, and reinvented from the Renaissance to the present day.
Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444335227
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Africa written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization
