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Africa Art And Ritual
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Download or read book Art and Oracle written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-eight African cultures are represented here by artifacts created to communicate with ancestors, spirits, and gods, about such issues as health, conception, and determination of guilt or innocence. Issued in conjunction with an April-July 2000 exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, this catalog contains extensive ethnographic, descriptive, and interpretive text in connection with each of 50 pictured pieces, as well as a 13-page essay about divination in Sub-Saharan Africa (by John Pemberton III) and an introductory essay by LaGamma. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book African Forms written by Laure Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates an aspect of African art that has largely been neglected by other books. African sculptures and art can be difficult to decipher because they are more than tokens of "art for art's sake." African art is often based on religious and philosophical values. It is created not just for the patron but for the entire community, using a language of form to help the society to understand what cannot otherwise be put into words. Through an enlightening analysis of some continent's most emblematic artifacts, this book decodes African art by putting it in the context of the broader culture. It is thematically organized around key motifs to help you fully understand African art. 150 colour illustrations
Book Synopsis Art and Craft in Africa by : Laure Meyer
Download or read book Art and Craft in Africa written by Laure Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful African objects presented in this book bear witness to the diverse esthetic and technical accomplishments of more than 100 African tribes, revealing the innate beauty of simple objects such as bowls, baskets, and masks, plus elaborate examples of weaponry, textiles, beadwork, and jewelry. 170 color illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Dance, Art, and Ritual of Africa by : Michel Huet
Download or read book The Dance, Art, and Ritual of Africa written by Michel Huet and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1978 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artistic and anthropological treatment of various sub-Saharan cultures as photographically recorded over a thirty-year period and accompanied by ethnographic notes explicating the significance of depicted masks, costumes, ceremonies, and choreography." -- Amazon.com viewed February 5, 2021.
Book Synopsis Africa, Art and Ritual by : Daphne Lane Beneke
Download or read book Africa, Art and Ritual written by Daphne Lane Beneke and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art and Craft in Africa by : Laure Meyer
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.
Book Synopsis The Visual Arts of Africa by : Judith Perani
Download or read book The Visual Arts of Africa written by Judith Perani and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special features of this book: follows a geographical organization across the continent; each chapter is reader friendly with clear, accessible sub-headings; represents important religious and utilitarian art traditions from the Sahara desert, West Africa, Central Africa, Northeast Africa, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa; gives special attention to the themes of gender, power, and life cycle rituals, which frequently intersect with one another to form an understanding of the arts of Africa; includes figurative sculpture, masquerades, architecture, textiles, dress, ceramics, wall painting, and leatherwork traditions; includes selected examples of the earliest known documented art works as well as contemporary art of each geographical region; includes an up-to-date bibliography, incorporating recent published field research for each chapter; and features 369 black and white illustrations, 16 colored plates, maps, and a time line.
Book Synopsis Art and Religion in Africa by : Rosalind Hackett
Download or read book Art and Religion in Africa written by Rosalind Hackett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's religious and artistic traditions constitute a primary example of its intellectual and cultural vitality. Artistic works play a vital role - especially where oral traditions dominate - in communicating ideas about the relationship between the human, spiritual and natural worlds. This work is a comparative study of Africa's visual and performing arts, concentrating on their geographical, material and gendered diversity, and focusing on the relation of these arts to African religion. The author combines ethnographic and art-historical methodology but does not assume any prior knowledge of African art or African religion. The text seeks a greater understanding of the philosophical and religious aspects of African art, thus challenging western perceptions of what is "important" in terms of artistic representation. This approach reveals the transformative capacities and multi-dimensionality of African art. The work also highlights the changes brought about by Christianity, Islam and the newer religious movements in post-colonial Africa.
Download or read book Surfaces written by Leonard Kahan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the power and potency of surfaces in African sculpture
Book Synopsis Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City by : Gore Charles Gore
Download or read book Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City written by Gore Charles Gore and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the charismatic priests and priestesses who are possessed by a pantheon of deities, the communities of devotees, and the artists who make artifacts for their shrines. The visual arts are part of a wider configuration of practices that include song, dance, possession and healing. These practices provide the means for exploring the relationships of the visual to both the verbal and performance arts that feature at these shrines. The analysis in this book raises fundamental questions about how the art of Benin, and non-Western art histories more generally, are understood. The book throws critical light on the taken-for-granted assumptions which underpin current interpretations and presents an original and revisionist account of Benin art history.
Book Synopsis Death, Ritual and Art in Africa by : Fred T. Smith
Download or read book Death, Ritual and Art in Africa written by Fred T. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African Ceremonies by : Carol Beckwith
Download or read book African Ceremonies written by Carol Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly designed, affordable one-volume edition of this definitive work on the traditional rituals of Africa, containing more than half the photos that were in the original edition plus new images that will focus fresh attention on specific ceremonies. The book is accompanied by a CD of African ceremonies. 473 photos.
Author :Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara Publisher :Wayne State University Press ISBN 13 :9780814328521 Total Pages :228 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (285 download)
Book Synopsis Manipulating the Sacred by : Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara
Download or read book Manipulating the Sacred written by Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.
Book Synopsis The Healing Wisdom of Africa by : Malidoma Patrice Some
Download or read book The Healing Wisdom of Africa written by Malidoma Patrice Some and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West.
Book Synopsis Masked Rituals of Afikpo by : Simon Ottenberg
Download or read book Masked Rituals of Afikpo written by Simon Ottenberg and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Santería Enthroned by : David H. Brown
Download or read book Santería Enthroned written by David H. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. Originally published in 2003 Santería Enthroned combines art, history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice it shows how negotiations among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion’s symbols, rituals, and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of change in Cuba and the United States, including a New Jersey temple and South Carolina’s Oyotunji Village, reveal patterns of innovation similar to those found among rival Yoruba kingdoms in Nigeria. Throughout, the book argues for a theoretical perspective on culture as a field of potential strategies and "usuable pasts" that actors draw upon to craft new forms and identities – a perspective that will be invaluable to all students of the African Diaspora.
Book Synopsis Spectacular Display by : Annemieke Van Damme
Download or read book Spectacular Display written by Annemieke Van Damme and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates and describes the decorated wall panels, sculpture and masks created during initiation rites of the young men of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. On a broader level, the book explores the artistic and craft traditions of the local artisans.
