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Senufo Unbound

Author : Susan E. Gagliardi
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874396665
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book Senufo Unbound written by Susan E. Gagliardi and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's now-defunct Museum of Primitive Art opened its landmark exhibition Senufo: Sculpture from West Africa in February 1963. Under the directorship of art historian Robert Goldwater, the museum displayed together for the first time a stunning array of arts attributed to Senufo artists: face masks, helmet masks, and figurative sculptures, all from a region spanning the borders of present-day Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Mali. Now, more than 50 years later, this new book draws on archival, museum, and field-based data, including previously unpublished letters, photographs, and objects, to look back at that tour-de-force exhibition, and offers a fresh, expanded view of a dynamic region's arts and identities.

Making History

Author : Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874395712
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an African-owned collection of African artworks, including sculpture of Yoruba, Igbo, Urhobo, Cross River, Benin, and Benue River Valley origins.

Pende

Author : Z. S. Strother
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pende written by Z. S. Strother and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavish illustrations feature both iconic and never-before-published Pende masterworks, selected to

Inscribing Meaning

Author : Sarah Adams
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inscribing Meaning written by Sarah Adams and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals Africa's contributions to the history of writing and inscription system worldwide

Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874395811
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections written by Toyin Falola and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian art has long been sought after by art collectors in France. Accompanying an important exhibition, Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections explores Nigeria’s rich artistic production through a collection of beautiful works, including many arresting figurative pieces, in a wide variety of media. Internationally known experts provide texts that introduce Nigeria, its peoples, and its assorted cultures. The superb photographs of the works add to the value of this sumptuous volume.

Luba

Author : Mary Nooter Roberts
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Luba written by Mary Nooter Roberts and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Luba people of Zaire.

Punu

Author : Louis Perrois
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Punu written by Louis Perrois and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Punu art by a world authority on the aesthetics and use of ritual objects by the peoples of southern Gabon.

African Sculptures and Forms

Author : Francois Neyt
Publisher : 5 Continents Editions
ISBN 13 : 9788874398317
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (983 download)

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Book Synopsis African Sculptures and Forms by : Francois Neyt

Download or read book African Sculptures and Forms written by Francois Neyt and published by 5 Continents Editions. This book was released on 2018 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the turn of the twentieth century, in particular Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, and later the Surrealists, then others right up till the present day, Western artists have drawn on the arts of Africa for inspiration. How can this constant impact ever be measured? The same is true for the arts in Africa. Every sculpture carries within it the heritage of a people, culture, and artistic tradition in the originality of its forms. West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa each has its own set of characteristics, within which the variety of the sculptures--always similar yet also always different--demonstrates the creativity of the ethnic group that created it. This book presents a remarkable collection amassed by a knowledgeable and impassioned art lover that combines sensitivity with quality--a quality of forms meticulously selected among different African cultures. It includes masks and reliquaries carved in Gabon, effigies and statuettes from Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa, and astonishing objects from West Africa, from Mali to Cameroon, the Koro and Mossi peoples, the Ejagham and Ekoi in Nigeria, and the Gouro in the Ivory Coast. An extraordinary collection of artistic forms that well merits its place in the universal patrimony of art."--Publisher's website.

Artists of Nigeria

Author : Onyema Offoedu-Okeke
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874395477
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Artists of Nigeria written by Onyema Offoedu-Okeke and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the development of modern Nigerian art, analyzing the achievements of leading artists while exploring arts movements within and surrounding the country throughout the past century, in a volume that includes coverage of the works of Olowere and Uche Okeke.

Bamum

Author : Christraud Geary
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874395736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Bamum written by Christraud Geary and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, artists working for the royal court of Bamum, in Cameroon, created elaborate bead-covered thrones and stools, wooden sculptures, masks in human and animal form, architectural carvings, and fine objects in bronze, ivory, and clay. This book focuses on the history, iconography, and meaning of these royal arts and looks at Western collectors who were fascinated by King Ibrahim Njoya (ruled 1886/7 to 1931) and the splendor of the royal court. Visual and written sources--including testimony by King Njoya and his courtiers, and extensive archival records--cast light on the strategies of a monarch who allowed visitors to acquire these arts to enhance the kingdom's reputation in distant Europe. The history of Bamum arts thus offers unique perspectives on African creativity and ingenuity, and European ways of collecting.

Igbo

Author : Herbert Cole
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874396320
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Igbo written by Herbert Cole and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Igbo art is famous for its diversity, inventiveness, and aesthetic quality. This wide-ranging survey of art made by the 15 to 20 million Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria focuses on the 20th century but also takes a look at the extraordinary 9th- and 10th-century bce cast copper alloy and ceramic finds that influenced Igbo artworks created 20 centuries later. Ceremonial contexts and meanings are explained, covering art associated with individuals as well as communal works and ranging from personal decoration to architectural forms, from household objects to cult sculpture, title regalia, and public shrines. Many little-known objects are included alongside a generous sampling of the thousands of masks that are perhaps the quintessential forms of Igbo art.

Chokwe

Author : Boris Wastiau
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Chokwe written by Boris Wastiau and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the visual art of one of the most renowned peoples of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo deals exclusively with sculpture. After providing a brief history of the Chokwe, the different chapters examine the figurines used in the ritual of divination, the statuary connected with the humba possession cults, antique (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) classical statuary referred to as of the native land, court items, privileges of the warrior aristocracy, and wooden masks linked to the chieftianship and the initiation rites of circumcision. Particular attention is devoted to the precious effigies of Chibinda Ilunga, the civilising hero of the myths of the origins, almost all the exemplars of which were brought to Europe in the nineteenth century, as well as to chairs, whose symbolism and function are revelatory both of the religion and the hierarchical structure of the chieftianship.

The Silence of Women

Author : Sarah C. Brett-Smith
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874396702
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Silence of Women written by Sarah C. Brett-Smith and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4e de couv.: The Silence of the Women, Bamana Mud Clothes leads the reader into the compelling world of Bamana women, examined through the study of a traditional textile, mud cloth or bógólanfini. The book treats mud clothes as a complex art form, illuminating the hidden cultural testimony written into its pattern. It reveals women's silent visual commentary on the events that dominate their lives: excision, arranged marriage, childbirth and death. The silence of the Women is a decisive contribution to our understanding of female knowledge and the ways in which this knowledge is preserved and transmitted to the next generation. Combining art history with anthropology, Sarah Brett-Smith reconstructs with exquisite subtlety and patience the existence of a savoir-faire that has had to deny its own existence. Written as a pendant to an earlier book, the Making of Banama Sculpture, it leads us into an artistic and emotional understanding of the shadowy world and the pregnant silences of Banama women.

Micromonumentality

Author : Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874397167
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Micromonumentality written by Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micromonumentality is the first title in a series, Micro-Africa, that highlights the artistic and cultural value of miniature objects created in Africa. The first volume introduces the concept behind the series, offering a broad overview of objects and materials created and used by a large number of different African ethnic groups. With superb full-page photographs and close-ups of individual details, Micromonumentality extols the wealth of expression found in talismans, weights, boxes, containers, fetishes, jewels, and other objects made from wood, ivory, bone, bronze, iron, aluminum, and stone. None of these exceed 6 inches in height or length, and though they are indeed "microscopic," they are as expressive as much larger works, and "monumental" in their own right. Here, approximately 150 objects from a unique collection of 20,000 pieces represent the quintessence of African thought, religiosity, and prodigious formal inventiveness.

African Costumes and Textiles

Author : Anne-Marie Bouttiaux
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book African Costumes and Textiles written by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating African costumes and textiles, this volume draws on historical and modern pieces from the Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection. The extraordinary works presented exemplify the craftsmanship of highly skilled African weavers and provide insight into the lives and culture of various ethnic groups. Whether the materials used are wool, cotton, silk, raffia, or bark, the patterns the weavers produce are predominantly geometric and abstract, but highly stylized figurative motifs are also found. The designs frequently illustrate excerpts from historical or mythical stories. The book presents a breathtaking variety of costumes, textiles, and accessories used for everyday wear and for special celebrations, and explores the different techniques, influences, and meanings behind these colorful works of art. The essays describe the history of the development of these techniques and the richness of the symbolism in this form of cultural heritage. The superb photography showcases the splendor of these intricate and exquisite textiles.

African Fetishes and Ancestral Objects

Author : François Neyt
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874396542
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book African Fetishes and Ancestral Objects written by François Neyt and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sculptures in this books, from four style groups in Central Africa - Kongo, Teke, Luba and Songye - were selected above all for their beauty, with a preference for pieces displaying carved signs linked to magic and witchcraft. The texts and photographs take an original slant on these figures, helping us see what is sublime or appealing in them and revealing something of the magic, mystery and fear they embody." -- Book jacket.

Kuba

Author : David Binkley
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874394043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Kuba written by David Binkley and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -A fascinating and essential overview of the Kuba people and their art through fifty exemplary pieces This volume explores the intriguing sculpture and decorative art of the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Best known for their king figures (ndop), considered among the greatest sculptural achievements of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Kuba actually produced little freestanding sculpture. Instead, they focused on a variety of decorative works that indicated success and achievement, and initiation-related pieces such as masks. The first book dedicated exclusively to this subject, Kuba examines the tribe's artistic development from the seventeenth century through the turbulent colonial and post-colonial periods. The authors also explore the impact of Kuba beliefs on their art and discuss the pervasive concerns that inform the tribe's art-making. With fifty beautifully reproduced examples and an engaging, informative text, Kuba is a fascinating introduction to African art.