Benin Kings and Rituals
Author: Barbara Plankensteiner
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Published: 2007
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ISBN-13: 9789053496268
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Author: Barbara Plankensteiner
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Published: 2007
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Author: Kate Ezra
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0870996339
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Author: Barbara Plankensteiner
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 535
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Publisher: Snoeck; Kunsthistorisches Museum Mit Mvk Und TM
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9783854971146
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Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788874394104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the history, iconography, and function of pre-colonial Benin art, including color images of bronzes, ivories, and wood carvings
Author: Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-11-02
Total Pages: 793
ISBN-13: 1107729173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity. Among the complementary subjects explored are questions of art making, art viewing and aesthetics in the famed ancient Nigerian city-state, as well as the attendant risks and danger assumed by artists, patrons and viewers alike in certain forms of subject matter and modes of portrayal, including unique genres of body marking, portraiture, animal symbolism and regalia. This volume celebrates art, history and the shared passion and skill with which the remarkable artists of early Ife sought to define their past for generations of viewers.
Author: Anne Stamm
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn African cultures, the spiritual and the physical exist in close communion. This relationship explains many aspects of African societies. Here, Daniel Laine presents a vivid photographic portrayal of men and women as they perform exorcisms, dances and other ritual of African mysticism.
Author: Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1351254596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detailed analysis of a corpus of nearly 850 bronze plaques that were installed in the court of the Benin kingdom at the moment of its greatest political power and geographic reach. By examining European accounts, Benin oral histories, and the physical evidence of the extant plaques, Gunsch is the first to propose an installation pattern for the series.
Author: Francesca Piqué
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2000-03-16
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 0892365692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Republic of Benin in West Africa is home to more than forty ethnic groups, the largest of which is the Fon. In the early seventeenth century, the Fon established a society ruled by a dynasty of kings, who over the years forged the powerful kingdom of Dahomey. In their capital city of Abomey, they built a remarkable complex of palaces that became the center of the kingdom's political, social, and religious life. The palace walls were decorated with colorful low-relief sculptures, or bas-reliefs, which recount legends and battles and glorify the history of the dynasty's reign. Over the centuries, these visual stories have represented and perpetuated the history and myths of the Fon people. The Palace Sculptures of Abomey combines lavish color photographs of the bas-reliefs with a lively history of the Dahomey kingdom, complemented by period drawings, rare historical photographs, and colorful textile art. The book provides a vivid portrait of these exceptional narrative sculptures and the equally remarkable people who crafted them. Also included are a reading of the stories on the walls and details of the four-year collaboration between the Benin Ministry of Culture and Communications and the Getty Conservation Institute to conserve the bas-reliefs of Abomey. Final chapters describe the Historic Museum of Abomey, now housed in the palace complex, and discuss the continuing popularity of bas-reliefs in contemporary West African art.
Author: Crystal Nicole Eddins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1108843727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new analysis of the origins of the Haitian Revolution, revealing the consciousness, solidarity, and resistance that helped it succeed.