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Author : William Buller Fagg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Notes on Nigerian Art from Christie's Catalogues 1974-1990 written by William Buller Fagg and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathy Curnow
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Museum
ISBN 13 : 1949057208
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum written by Kathy Curnow and published by University of Pennsylvania Museum. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide examines America's oldest collection of Benin art, and one of its least published. Ivory, brass, and wooden art from one of the greatest African precolonial states--the only sub-Saharan polity with 500 years of surviving art--are examined through contextual lenses that provide insight into the Ẹdo people's creativity and world view. The guide also considers the collection's specific history and growth, and current plans to repatriate the artworks back to Nigeria's Benin Kingdom. For readers unfamiliar with Benin and its art, this introduces the complexities of the palace, its successive monarchs and chiefs, and interprets metaphorical motifs such as mudfish, leopards, and elephants. Artworks refer to family and court rivalries, as well as the strict court hierarchies that dictated who could use which materials and wear particular regalia. Interactions with the Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries, their impact on trade and luxury goods, and their introduction of Catholicism paint a portrait of a society that absorbed only what they found useful and flourished in both war and peace. Original fieldwork illuminates Benin art and culture and previously published archival material provides insight regarding major collectors and individuals who shaped the field of African art history.
Author : James Green
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300266553
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Bámigbóyè written by James Green and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first publication on the Yorùbá master sculptor Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition is the first monograph dedicated to the 50-year career of the Nigerian artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè (ca. 1885–1975). One of the most important Yorùbá sculptors of the twentieth century, Bámigbóyè is best known for the spectacular masks that he carved for religious festivals known locally as Ẹpa. Weighing up to 80 pounds and measuring over 4 feet tall, with intricate superstructures that could feature dozens of finely carved individual figures, these masks represent some of the most complex and elaborate works of Yorùbá art ever made. With 190 illustrations, this sumptuous volume presents masterpieces from Bámigbóyè’s workshop now housed in collections in America, Europe, and Nigeria. Essays situate Bámigbóyè’s work as part of Africa’s oldest and most dynamic art traditions and consider his sculpture in relation to contemporary Yorùbá art, culture, politics, and religion. With new and archival photographs and incorporating oral histories conducted with the artist’s family and community, this catalogue fills a critical void in African art-historical scholarship. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Yale University Art Gallery (September 9, 2022–January 8, 2023)
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Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299143244
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Living with Africa written by Jan Vansina and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars. "I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he could analyze Kuba oral tradition using the same methods he had learned for interpreting medieval dirges was a historiographical breakthrough, and his first book, Oral Tradition as History, is considered the seminal work that gave the study of precolonial African history both the scholarly justification and the self-confidence it had been lacking. Living with Africa is a compelling memoir of Vansina's life and career on three continents, interwoven with the story of African history as a scholarly specialty. In the background of his narrative are the collapse of colonialism in Africa and the emergence of newly independent nations; in the foreground are the first conferences on African history, the founding of journals and departments, and the efforts of Africans to establish a history curriculum for the schools in their new nations.
Author : ABIODUN R
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book YORUBA ARTIST PB written by ABIODUN R and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1994-09-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural legacy of the Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin is one of Africa's oldest and richest, extending for more than nine centuries. Among the most prized achievements of African art are the naturalistic terracotta sculptures produced for the royal Yoruba courts from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. Also renowned for their beauty and craftsmanship are Yoruba ceremonial swords, elaborate beaded crowns, wood and ivory carvings, embroidered textiles, jewelry, and architectural works. With twenty-seven color reproductions and eighty-one photographs - many published for the first time - accompanying essays by eighteen of the world's foremost Yoruba cultural historians, this book offers the most complete exploration of Yoruba artists and their work to date. Documenting the full spectrum of Yoruba culture, this definitive work extends beyond the visual arts to examine, for the first time, the Yoruba use of such oral traditions as singing and chanting, as well as drumming, dance, and other artistic expressions, including an Ifa divination ritual that involves an interplay of arts. The Yoruba Artist presents the latest in field-research and critical methodology, pointing to new directions in African cultural scholarship. The book explains the intricate linkage of a variety of Yoruba art forms and the role of oriki (praise poetry) songs in the transmission of knowledge. In one essay, Wande Abimbola illustrates how an extended praise poem serves as a source for knowledge concerning a famous eighteenth-century carver in the Old Oyo area. In another, Oba Solomon Babayemi discusses the relationship between oral history preserved by singers and drummers and the architectural history ofthe palace at Gbongan. In appraising individual figures such as Olowe of Isethis century's most important Yoruba artist - the contributors underscore particular oral and visual codes that identify authorship. Discussing the transition to current cultural forms, the essayists also show how contemporary artists in West Africa and the Americas have revitalized Yoruba aesthetic traditions.
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Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Arts of Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Africa written by Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading collections of African art in the world, the African collection at Berlin's Ethnological Museum contains important masterpieces from many different regions of the continent. This stunning book includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white reproductions of masks, ceremonial figures, musical instruments, and objects of everyday life from throughout Africa. Among the jewels in the museum are the Ife Collection from Nigeria; rare Benin bronzes; Afro-Portuguese ivories; magical figures from the Lower Congo and a host of East African sculpture and masks that have gained increasing attention in recent years. Essays by leading ethnologists supply important cultural and historical information on each region, as well as fascinating insights into the ways European and African art have traded influences over the centuries.
Author : Karl-Ferdinand Schädler
Publisher : Panterra
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gods Spirits Ancestors written by Karl-Ferdinand Schädler and published by Panterra. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay A. Levenson
Publisher : Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encompassing the Globe written by Jay A. Levenson and published by Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yvette Scheven
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Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Bibliographies for African Studies, 1987-1993 written by Yvette Scheven and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-organized, succinctly annotated bibliography of bibliographic works, primarily in the social sciences and humanities, concerning Africa. Builds upon Scheven's previous work, Bibliographies for African Studies, 1970-1986 (London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1988). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Baessler-Archiv written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beiträge zur Völkerkunde.
Author : Dr. Hans Witte
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Closer Look written by Dr. Hans Witte and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A systematic study of regional and local styles in the art of the Yoruba of West Africa has never been attempted before. In what is a new approach to Yoruba studies, Hans Witte's presentation of the Yoruba art collection of the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal not only examines the cultural context, but also takes a closer look at local stylistic differences and traces the geographical origins of the various works of art. His classification of objects by local style is based on a vast body of documentation of Yoruba art and on his thirty-year study of the art-historical and anthropological literature of the Yoruba. Hans Witte sets out the reasons for his classification in precise detail, with reference to the relevant literature wherever possible. He thus also encourages furthur discussion on the attribution of works of art and the whole notion of artistic styles among the Yoruba." --back cover
Author : Karl-Ferdinand Schädler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Earth and Ore written by Karl-Ferdinand Schädler and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roslyn A. Walker
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Ọlọ́wẹ̀ of Isẹ̀ written by Roslyn A. Walker and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arts & Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Heath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521767407
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Auction written by Christian Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses how social interaction forms the foundation to sale of art and antiques worth many billions of pounds each year.
