Pende
Author: Z. S. Strother
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2008-10
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLavish illustrations feature both iconic and never-before-published Pende masterworks, selected to
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Visions of Freedom
Author: Piero Gleijeses
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 1469609681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVisions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Igbo
Author: Herbert Cole
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9788874396320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIgbo art is famous for its diversity, inventiveness, and aesthetic quality. This wide-ranging survey of art made by the 15 to 20 million Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria focuses on the 20th century but also takes a look at the extraordinary 9th- and 10th-century bce cast copper alloy and ceramic finds that influenced Igbo artworks created 20 centuries later. Ceremonial contexts and meanings are explained, covering art associated with individuals as well as communal works and ranging from personal decoration to architectural forms, from household objects to cult sculpture, title regalia, and public shrines. Many little-known objects are included alongside a generous sampling of the thousands of masks that are perhaps the quintessential forms of Igbo art.
Kuba
Author: David Binkley
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788874394043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK-A fascinating and essential overview of the Kuba people and their art through fifty exemplary pieces This volume explores the intriguing sculpture and decorative art of the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Best known for their king figures (ndop), considered among the greatest sculptural achievements of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Kuba actually produced little freestanding sculpture. Instead, they focused on a variety of decorative works that indicated success and achievement, and initiation-related pieces such as masks. The first book dedicated exclusively to this subject, Kuba examines the tribe's artistic development from the seventeenth century through the turbulent colonial and post-colonial periods. The authors also explore the impact of Kuba beliefs on their art and discuss the pervasive concerns that inform the tribe's art-making. With fifty beautifully reproduced examples and an engaging, informative text, Kuba is a fascinating introduction to African art.
Yoruba
Author: Babatunde Lawal
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9788874395873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt features prominently in the culture of the Yoruba, a people numbering more than 25 million and subdivided into different kingdoms in Nigeria and adjacent regions. It both enriches life and is used to venerate and influence deities. This new book explores the archaeological and historical evidence that suggests that by the beginning of the second millennium, many Yoruba kingdoms had become major urban centers with highly developed economic, cultural, political, and religious institutions. Drawing on field observations, contextual analyses, oral sources, and published materials, this book offers insight into the poetics and dynamics of Yoruba art and the belief that the “beautiful” or “well-made” generates a special power that commands attention.
Chokwe
Author: Boris Wastiau
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to the visual art of one of the most renowned peoples of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo deals exclusively with sculpture. After providing a brief history of the Chokwe, the different chapters examine the figurines used in the ritual of divination, the statuary connected with the humba possession cults, antique (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) classical statuary referred to as of the native land, court items, privileges of the warrior aristocracy, and wooden masks linked to the chieftianship and the initiation rites of circumcision. Particular attention is devoted to the precious effigies of Chibinda Ilunga, the civilising hero of the myths of the origins, almost all the exemplars of which were brought to Europe in the nineteenth century, as well as to chairs, whose symbolism and function are revelatory both of the religion and the hierarchical structure of the chieftianship.
Visions of African Unity
Author: Matteo Grilli
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 3030529118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays analyzes different iterations of African unity, exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification. It explores the cultural, economic and non-state aspects of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as the principal institution dedicated to the cooperation of African states, from its establishment in 1963 to its transformation into the African Union (AU) in 2000, as well as how ideas of African unity shaped the Cold War and African liberation struggles. Bringing together contributors from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds across Africa, Europe and the US, this book investigates the ideological origins and historiography of Pan-African and unification projects, and considers how African intellectuals, leaders and populations engaged with these ideas.
Luba
Author: Mary Nooter Roberts
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Luba people of Zaire.
Punu
Author: Louis Perrois
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to Punu art by a world authority on the aesthetics and use of ritual objects by the peoples of southern Gabon.
Fang
Author: Louis Perrois
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFang art is one of the most distinguished arts of Black Africa. Its masks, with their facial markings, abstract features and strong, elegant lines, were among the most influential in 20th century modern art. Fang figures, called Bieri, are renowned for their child-like proportions contrasted with a muscular, poised vigilance. Fang art also includes iron currency and other objects that exhibit the traditional African ability to making everyday functional objects things of artistic merit. Fang reviews these artifacts and their social, ritual or symbolic characters. Statuettes related to ancestors, dance masks of the various rites, insignia of power, headdresses and jewellery, decorated music instruments and everyday utensils, all have an amazingly varied aesthetic creativity, in harmony with their profuse world of beliefs and myths.
