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Author |
: Laure Meyer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066439590 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Forms by : Laure Meyer
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
Author |
: Raquel Kennon |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2022-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807177648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807177644 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Afrodiasporic Forms by : Raquel Kennon
Afrodiasporic Forms explores the epistemological possibilities of the “Black world” paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African diasporas across multiple poetic, visual, and cultural permutations. Examining the transatlantic slave trade and modern racial slavery, Raquel Kennon challenges the US-centric focus of slavery studies and draws on a transnational, eclectic archive of materials from Lusophone, Hispanophone, and Anglophone sources in the Americas to inspect evolving, multitudinous, and disparate forms of Afrodiasporic cultural expression. Spanning the 1830s to the twenty-first century, Afrodiasporic Forms traverses national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries as it investigates how cultural products of slavery’s afterlife—including poetry, prose, painting, television, sculpture, and song—shape understandings of the African diaspora. Each chapter uncovers multidirectional pathways for exploring representations of slavery, considering works such as a Brazilian telenovela based on Bernardo Guimarães’s novel A Escrava Isaura, Robert Hayden’s poem “Middle Passage,” Kara Walker’s sculpture A Subtlety, and Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografía de un esclavo. Kennon’s expansive method of comparative reading across the diaspora uses eclectic pairings of canonical and popular textual and artistic sources to stretch beyond disciplinary and national borders, promoting expansive diasporic literacies.
Author |
: William Fagg |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1965 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Tribes and Forms in African Art by : William Fagg
Author |
: Manthia Diawara |
Publisher |
: Prestel Pub |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3791343424 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783791343426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Film by : Manthia Diawara
Contemporary African filmmaking is the subject of this insightful and exciting look at every aspect of the art form on the African continent. Focusing on new trends in African cinema from the 1990s to today, this book explores new cinematic languages and modes of production, films departure from nationalism and social realism, and the Nollywood film industry, among other topics. In this book Manthia Diawara, a renowned scholar on Black cinema, literature, and art brings readers up to date on the exciting changes taking place behind and in front of African cameras. Contributions by filmmakers, scholars, and producers as well as profiles of thirty important African directors and their films, provide valuable insight into recent developments. The volume comes with a DVD containing several interviews with filmmakers conducted by the author. Scholars, students, and anyone interested in cinematic and African cultural studies will find much to discover and celebrate in this authoritative, fascinating look at new trends in African filmmaking.
Author |
: Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona |
Publisher |
: World Spirituality |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0824507800 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824507800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Spirituality by : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona
As Africa moves into the 21st century it faces new spiritual, social, and economic challenges.
Author |
: M Okediji |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2002-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015055911815 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Renaissance by : M Okediji
African Renaissance: New Forms, Old Images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Moyo Okediji defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and revive Yoruba art in the twentieth century. With vivid reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings, Okediji describes how Yoruba art has replenished and redefined itself. Okediji groups the text into several broadly overlapping periods that intricately detail the journey of Yoruba art and artists: first through oppression by European colonialism, then the attainment of Nigeria’s independence and the new nation’s subsequent military coup, and ending with present-day native Yoruban artists fleeing their homeland.
Author |
: W. Lawrence Hogue |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2013-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438448367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438448368 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives by : W. Lawrence Hogue
This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African American history and cultural politics, W. Lawrence Hogue provides original and insightful readings of six experimental/postmodern African American texts: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire; Percival Everett's Erasure; Toni Morrison's Jazz; Bonnie Greer's Hanging by Her Teeth; Clarence Major's Reflex and Bone Structure; and Xam Wilson Cartiér's Muse-Echo Blues. Using traditional cultural and western forms, including the blues, jazz, voodoo, virtuality, radical democracy, Jungian/African American Collective Unconscious, Yoruba gods, black folk culture, and black working class culture, Hogue reveals that these authors uncover spaces with different definitions of life that still retain a wildness and have not been completely mapped out and trademarked by normative American culture. Redefining the African American novel and the African American outside the logic, rules, and values of western binary reason, these writers leave open the possibility of psychic liberation of African Americans in the West.
Author |
: Victoria L. Rovine |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2015-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253014139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253014131 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Fashion, Global Style by : Victoria L. Rovine
African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.
Author |
: Matthias Krings |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2015-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253016409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253016401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Appropriations by : Matthias Krings
This exploration of African adaptations of global pop culture is “a genuinely innovative book unlike most others in either anthropology or African studies” (American Ethnologist). Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an “original” or “faithful copy,” but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture. “The text is jargon free, a pleasure to read, remarkably well researched, and enriched by 40 illustrations . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Author |
: Sarah Brouillette |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 2021-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316997406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316997405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Underdevelopment and African Literature by : Sarah Brouillette
People looking for works in cities are immersed in English as the lingua franca of the mobile phone and the urban hustle – more effective instigations to reading than decades of work by traditional publishers and development agencies. The legal publishing industry campaigns to convince people to scorn pirates and plagiarists as a criminal underclass, and to instead purchase copyrighted, barcoded works that have the look of legitimacy about them. They work with development industry officials to 'foster literacy' – meaning to grow the legal book trade as a contributor to national economic health, and police what and how the newly literate read. But harried cash-strapped audiences will read what and how they can, often outside of formal economies, and are increasingly turning to mobile phone platforms that sell texts at a fraction of the price of legally printed books.