A History Of Art In Africa
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Author |
: Monica Blackmun Visonà |
Publisher |
: Prentice Hall |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0136128726 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780136128724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Art in Africa by : Monica Blackmun Visonà
"Informed by the latest scholarship yet written for the general reader, this has been the first comprehensive study to present the arts of Africa in art historical terms. A History of Art in Africa covers all parts of the continent, including Egypt, from prehistory to the present day and includes the art of the African Diaspora. Many aspects of visual culture are given detailed consideration, including sculpture, architecture, and such quintessentially African forms as masquerades, festivals, and personal adornment. The arts of daily life, of royal ceremony, and of state cosmology receive compelling discussions. Throughout, the authors emphasize the cultural contexts in which art is produced and imbued with meanings." "Among the ancient works illustrated are masterpieces in brass, gold, ivory, stone and terracotta. Religious arts serving Islamic and Christian communities are presented, as are fascinating hybrid arts that periodically arose from African interactions with Europe, Asia and the Americas. Twentieth-century arts are explored as part of the vibrancy of modern Africa and as ingenious responses to historical change. 'Twenty-first-century African artists, and artists of the African Diaspora, are presented in the context of changing global economies and new theoretical positions." "This expanded and revised second edition provides a new chapter on African artists working abroad, and five new short essays on cross-cultural topics such as tourist arts, dating methods, and the illicit trade in archaeological artifacts. The illustrations - featuring a vast and rich array of images of artworks, archival and contemporary field photographs, explanatory drawings and plans, and individual objects displayed in museums and in use - have likewise been greatly extended, with many more pictures now shown in color."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: J. Vansina |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2014-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317869030 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317869036 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Art History in Africa by : J. Vansina
This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader with a systematic method for the historical understanding of African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique, style and meaning of art objects and examines the creative process through which they come into being. Numerous photographs and drawings illustrate his arguments, and help to explain the changes that have taken place.
Author |
: Peter Probst |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2022-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226793153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022679315X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Is African Art? by : Peter Probst
A history of the evolving field of African art. Peter Probst offers the first book to explore the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. He starts his exploration with a simple question: What do we actually talk about when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting answers to this question, Probst identifies the notion of African art as a conceptual vessel whose changing content manifests wider societal transformations. The perspective is a pragmatic and relational one. Rather than providing an affirmative answer to what African art is and what local meanings it has, Probst shows how the works labeled as "African art" figure in the historical processes and social interactions that constitute the Africanist art world. What Is African Art? covers three key stages in the field's history. Starting with the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, Probst focuses on the role of museums, collectors, and photography in disseminating visual culture and considers how early anthropologists, artists, and art historians imbued objects with values that reflected ideas of the time. He then explores the remaking of the field at the dawn of African independence with the shift towards contemporary art and the rise of Black Atlantic studies in the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, he examines the postcolonial reconfiguration of the field driven by questions of heritage, reparation, and representation. Probst looks to the future, arguing that, if the study of African art is to move in productive new directions, we must look to how the field is evolving within Africa.
Author |
: Peter S. Garlake |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192842617 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192842619 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Art and Architecture of Africa by : Peter S. Garlake
This new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West Africa, Great Zimbabwe, and the East African coast--treating each in detail and setting them in their social and historical context. Garlake is long familiar with and has extensive practical experience of both the archaeology and the art history of Africa. Using the latest research and archaeological findings, he offers exciting new insights into the works native to these areas, and he also puts forth new interpretations of several key cultures and monuments. Acknowledging the universal allure of the African art object, this stunning book helps us to understand more about the ways in which this art was produced, used, and received.
Author |
: Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015062620003 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Arts of Africa by : Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
"This beautifully illustrated volume highlights all the rich diversity of African cultures through a meaningful selection of masterpieces of traditional African art."--Global Books in Print.
Author |
: Kathleen Bickford Berzock |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0295989610 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780295989617 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Representing Africa in American Art Museums by : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
"The first comprehensive book to focus on the history of African art in American art museums. ... Thirteen essays present the institutional biographies of African art collections in the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Hampton University Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Barnes Foundation, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Primitive Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indiana University of Art Museum, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the University of Iowa Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Menil Collection, and the National Museum of African Art."--back cover.
Author |
: Gitti Salami |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 650 |
Release |
: 2013-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781444338379 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1444338374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Modern African Art by : Gitti Salami
Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art
Author |
: Jean-Loïc Le Quellec |
Publisher |
: Flammarion-Pere Castor |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106017794865 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rock Art in Africa by : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
The only book of its kind to examine cave art throughout Africa. The paintings and engravings discovered in African caves are amazing works of art that hold clues to understanding the history of humankind.
Author |
: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015038184647 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa by : Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Northern Africa. Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze, and stone provide stunning proof of the aesthetic strength of African traditions, even in the case of utilitarian works that were not made to be "art". In some cases, the very concept of art was foreign to their makers, as Kwame Anthony Appiah explains in his essay. In an epic overview of Africa's earliest history, Ekpo Eyo makes a strong case for dispensing with the popular misconception that northern Africa.
Author |
: Pamela McClusky |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691092753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691092751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Art from Africa by : Pamela McClusky
"The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects-- in the Seatle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art."