Tradition and Transition in African Art
Author: Warren M. Robbins
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13:
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The Language of Beauty in African Art
Author: Constantine Petridis
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
Published: 2022-03-08
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780300260045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious publication centers indigenous perspectives on traditional artworks from Africa by focusing on the judgments and vocabularies of members of the communities who created and used them. It explores cross-cultural affinities spanning the African continent while respecting local contexts; it also documents an exhibition that is extraordinary in scope and scale. The project's overriding goal is to reconsider Western evaluations of these arts in both aesthetic and financial terms. The volume features nearly 300 works from collections around the world and from the important holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago. Although it emphasizes the sculptural legacy of sub-Saharan cultures from West and Central Africa, it also includes examples of artistic traditions associated with eastern and southern Africa as well as textiles and objects designed for domestic, ritual, and decorative functions.00Exhibition: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA (03.04. - 31.07.2022) / Art Institute of Chicago, USA (20.11.2022 - 27.02.2023).
The Art of Africa
Author: Christa Clarke
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1588391906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA CD-ROM and DVD set extracted from the 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators.' The CD-ROM "contains a PDF of 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators, ' which features forty traditional works of African art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes a brief overview of the Metropolitan's collection of African art; a short introduction and history of Africa; an explanation of the role of visual expression in the continent; descriptions of the featured works of art and background about the materials and techniques that were used to created them ... The DVD, 'Ci Wara Invocation, ' "presents the highlights of a dozen ci wara performances in Bamana communities in present-day Mali that were recorded by five different observers between 1970-2002. Among the Bamana, oral traditions credit a mythical being named Ci Wara, a divine being half mortal and half antelope, with the introduction of agriculture to the Bamana. The ci wara performances are part of biannual celebrations that either launch or conclude the farming season."--Container
Acquisition of the Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTradition and Transition
Author: Philip G. Altbach
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9087903596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the topics considered are the logic of mass higher education, globalization and inequality, the role of research universities, academic freedom, private higher education, and the academic profession and its problems. These topical chapters are accompanied by in-depth discussions of Asia and Africa.
The Arts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a Modernized Africa
Author: Runette Kruger
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018-12-17
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1527523624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then the concept of post-Africanism that would induce one to think along the lines of a globalized, cosmopolitan and essentially modernized Africa. The book captures leading trends and ideas that could help to protect, promote, develop and affirm indigenous knowledge and systems, whilst also making room for ideas that do not necessarily oppose IKS, but encourage the modernization (not Westernization) of Africa.
Heroic Africans
Author: Alisa LaGamma
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1588394328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zeurich, at later dates.
The Anthropology of Art
Author: Howard Morphy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-02-04
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1405155329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.
The Essential Art of African Textiles
Author: Alisa LaGamma
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 1588392937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe De-Africanization of African Art
Author: Denis Ekpo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-12
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1000427242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa’s creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an almost unshakable stranglehold on the content, stylistics, and meaning of art in Africa. Post-African aesthetics insists on the need to move beyond this counter-colonial self-consciousness and considerably change, re-work and enlarge the ground, principles and mission of artistic imagination and creativity in Africa. This book critiques and dismantles the tropes of Africanism and Afrocentrism, providing the criteria and methodology for a Post-African art theory or Post-African aesthetics. Grounded initially in essays by Denis Ekpo, the father of Post-Africanism, the book then explores a range of applications and interpretations of Post-African theory to the art forms and creative practices in Africa. With particular reference to South Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers across the disciplines of Art, Literature, Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and African Studies.
