Benin Kings and Rituals
Author: Barbara Plankensteiner
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789053496268
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Royal Art of Benin
Author: Kate Ezra
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0870996339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?"
Benin
Author: Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late 15th century, the Kingdom of Benin (located in present-day southwestern Nigeria) established a mercantile relationship with Portugal, significantly increasing its wealth and might. Benin became a regional powerhouse and, under a long lineage of divine rulers, or obas, it wielded great economic and political influence. The obas also supported guilds of artists--chief among them brass casters and ivory carvers--whom they employed to produce objects that honored royal ancestors, recorded history, and glorified life at court. The sophisticated creations of Benin’s royal artists stand among the greatest works of African art. This stunning book features a selection of Benin’s extraordinary artworks that range from finely cast bronze figures, altar heads, and wall plaques to ivory tusks, pendants, and arm cuffs embellished in detailed bas relief. An insightful essay outlines the kingdom’s history and sheds light on these masterworks by describing their production and function in the context of the royal court.
Benin Kings and Rituals
Author: Barbara Plankensteiner
Publisher: Snoeck; Kunsthistorisches Museum Mit Mvk Und TM
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9783854971146
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Author: Barbara Plankensteiner
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 535
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Author: Barbara Plankensteiner
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
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
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.
African Gods
Author: Anne Stamm
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
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.
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
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.
The Benin Plaques
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.
