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|escaper|escapen|escapet15th Triennial Symposium on African Art, Arts Council of the African Studies Association, 2011, Wednesday, March 23 - Saturday, March 26, 2011, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

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|escaper|escapen|escapetAddis Art - Ethiopian Art and Artists Page

|escaper|escapen|escapetContemporary Ethiopian art and artists - paintings, sculptures and digital art work by students and professionals from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. University instructor, Getahun Assefa's paintings, drawings, sculpture, digital art. Also work by his brother, Tesfaye Assefa. Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [KF] https://www.addisart.com/

|escaper|escapen|escapetAddis Art - Nouveau Art from Ethiopia

|escaper|escapen|escapetArtists include Shiferaw Girma and Lulseged Retta. Photographs of each artist's work, a biography, and video. Founded by Mesai Haileleul. [KF] https://www.addis-art.com/

|escaper|escapen|escapetAdire African Textiles - Duncan Clarke

|escaper|escapen|escapetHistory, background, and photographs of adire, adinkra, kente, bogolan, Yoruba aso-oke, akwete, ewe, kuba, and nupe textiles. The symbolism of images is often provided. One can purchase textiles as well. Clarke's Ph.D. dissertation (School of Oriental and African Studies) is on Yoruba men's weaving. See also the Adire African Textiles blog. Based in London. https://www.adireafricantextiles.com/

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WILLETT  Frank

 

African Art   (ISBN-10: 0500203644 - ISBN-13: 978-0500203644)

 

Détails sur le produit: Broché: 304 pages - Editeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd; Édition: 2nd Revised edition (2002) - Collection: World of Art - Langue: Anglais

Descrizione libro: 

The art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota, and other African peoples is extraordinarily vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact that their works have had on the development of twentieth-century Western art-on Picasso, Derain, Braque, and Modigliani, among others-continues to this day. This classic study reveals the astonishing variety and expressive power of the art of a continent that contains more distinct peoples and cultures than any other. The revised edition has been updated throughout, incorporating recent research and additional illustrations, plus a new chapter and extended bibliography. It remains an invaluable resource for students and for anyone interested in African art. 291 illustrations, 88 in

 

VERSWIJVER Gustaaf, Els De Palmenaer, Viviane Baeke, Anne-Marie Bouttiaux-Ndiaye, Alain Nicolas

 

Masterpieces from Central Africa: The Tervuren Museum

 

Détails sur le produit: Relié: 200 pages - Editeur: Prestel; Édition: illustrated edition (17 october 1996) - Collection: African, Asian & Oceanic Art - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 3791316834 - ISBN-13: 978-3791316833

Descrizione libro: Prestel 1996. Mint in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 200 pp. Illustrated throughout principally in full colour. 1st edition of excellent title. Published to coincide with a major exhibition across North America and Europe, this book describes and illustrates 125 of the finest objects in the Tervuren Museum collection. The objects come from a number of countries including Zaire and Angola, and very few have been exhibited before. The museum was founded in 1897 by King Leopold II of Belgium as a "window on Central Africa" for the Belgian people. An exhibition to commemorate its centenary is being staged from 1996 to 1998 in Ottawa, Washington DC, San Francisco, Chicago, and many other venues across North America and

STROTHER Z.S.

PENDE

 

 

Détails sur le produit:

Broché: 128 pages - Editeur: Five Continents Editions; Édition: illustrated edition (21 février 2008) Collection: Visions of Africa Series - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 8874393849 - ISBN-13: 978-8874393848

 

 

Book Description

Although many societies in the Congo were once renowned for their vibrant carved masks and architectural sculptures, these phenomena have only been studied as living traditions among a handful of peoples, most notably the Pende. Lavish illustrations evoke the full range of Pende expression and offers a unique window into both masquerade and architecture in Central Africa. Part of the Visions of Africa

ROBERTS F. Allen

 

Animals in African Art: From the Familiar to the Marvelous

 

Détails sur le produit:

Relié: 192 pages - Editeur: Prestel (1995) - Collection: African, Asian & Oceanic Art - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 3791314556 - ISBN-13: 978-3791314556

 

Descrizione libro: 

From the Familiar to the Marvelous. With a foreword by James Fernandez. New York: The Museum for African Art & Prestel, Munich 1995, 30.0 x 23.0cms, 192pp, colour illusts, very good+ paperback (exhibition catalogue) This book explores 125 Western & Central African representations of animals in various media and of exceptional aethetic quality. Roberts argues that they are useful metaphors for people's predicaments and mirror human

PETRIDIS Constantine

Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba - Songye - Chokwe - Luluwa

 

Détails sur le produit: Relié: 160 pages - Editeur: MercatorFonds (29 septembre 2008) 

Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 9061538300 - ISBN-13: 978-9061538301

 

Note Libraio 

Hardback with jacket, 120 illustrations, 100 in colour. Revealing the powers immanent in works that the West long regarded only as exotic or abstract, Constantine Petridis looks beneath the surface of the arts of the Luba, Songye, Chokwe and Luluwa peoples to find, literally embedded in sculpture, the forces that enable the spirit world to intervene in daily life. Ritual use of these objects is expected to ensure a healthy birth, successful hunt, or triumph over an enemy. Analysis of the scholarly record illuminates the changing visions of leadership and prestige that fostered the development of the majestic, elaborate figure styles long prized in the

MULLEN-KREAMER Christine, FREYER Bryna et NICOLLS Andrea

African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection

Détails sur le produit: Relié: 235 pages - Editeur: Prestel; Édition : illustrated edition (30 mars 2007) - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 3791338021 - ISBN-13: 978-3791338026

Descriptions du produit: Ninety renowned masterpieces of African art that inspired artists at the Walt Disney studios. In 2005, the Walt Disney Company donated its Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Considered one of the world's finest collections of African art, the Disney-Tishman Collection contains iconic pieces dating from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries and showcases art that represents seventy-five peoples and twenty countries. This book explores the many ways that the collection reflects Africa's rich history and culture and focuses particularly on objects used in performance, rituals, and as emblems of power. Figures carved in stone, wood, and ivory; stools, masks, crowns, jewelry, and hunting tools--each object is presented in vivid color plates and accompanied by texts providing information about the objects' history, uses, and materials. This beautiful book accompanies the first public presentation of the collection in the past twenty years, permitting a new generation to experience one of America's national treasures.

About the author: Christine Mullen Kreamer is Curator at the National Museum of African Art. Bryna Freyer is Curator for Collections at the National Museum of African Art. Andrea Nicolls is curatorial liaison for loan at the National Museum of African Art. Martin Sklar is Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney

MEURANT Georges, THOMPSON Robert Farris

Mbuti Design: Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest

 

Détails sur le produit:

Relié: 224 pages - Editeur: Thames & Hudson Inc - 1996 - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 0500974306 - ISBN-13: 978-0500974308

Descriptions du produit:

Thames & Hudson Inc, 1996. Hardcover. 300 x 245 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. The Mbuti people, who live in the Ituri rainforest of northeastern Zaire, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer cultures in the world. Since 3500 BC they have been famed for their rich arts of music and dancing, but until recently the barkcloth drawings and paintings originally made by the women as loincloths for ceremonies and dances have been virtually unknown in the west. The qualities of these drawings and their reflection of the Mbuti people's way of life, are explored and illustrated in this volume. The drawings are closely analyzed, examined both thematically and aesthetically, and the wider influence of African forager art forms on contemporary world art is

LEHUARD Raoul, LECOMTE Alain

Babembe Sculpture

 

Détails sur le produit: - Relié: 212 pages - Editeur: 5 Continents Editions srl; Édition: Bilingual (22 avril 2010) - Collection: ARTS 1ERS - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 8874395442 - ISBN-13: 978-8874395446

Présentation de l'éditeur: Première monographie consacrée à la production artistique et symbolique des Babembé, cet ouvrage richement illustré présente les sculptures anthropomorphes en bois que ce peuple consacrait au culte des ancêtres. La majorité d'entre elles sont reproduites ici pour la première fois; leur décor témoigne des tatouages, scarifications et ornements cutanés auxquels les Babembé avaient recours pour embellir leur corps lors des rituels d initiation.------ The first full investigation into the symbolic artworks of the Babembe, this richly illustrated monograph presents a particular type of sculpture that the Babembe devoted to their family ancestors. Many of these anthropomorphic wooden statues are published here for the first time, and they bear the same tattoos and scarifications, or skin decorations, that these people have always used to embellish their bodies during initiation

JORDAN Manuel

Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia

 

Détails sur le produit:

Broché: 84 pages - Editeur: Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. (15 mars 2007) - Collection: Fowler in Focus - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 0974872970 - ISBN-13: 978-0974872971

 

Descrizione libro:

The Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2007. Paperback. 190mm x 8mm x 267mm. Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia. Manuel Jordn reveals the beauty and complexity of the remarkable masquerade traditions of the Chokwe, Mbunda, Lunda, Lwena/Luvale, and Luchazi, peoples who live in the Three Corners region of northwestern Zambia, northeastern Angola, and southwestern Democratic Republic of the

JORDAN Manuel

Chokwe: Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples

 

Détails sur le produit: Broché: 191 pages Editeur: Prestel; Édition: illustrated edition (1 November 1998) Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 3791319973 - ISBN-13: 978-3791319971

 

Descrizione libro: Magnificently loaded with elegant plates of ceremonial and tribal objects from the Chokwe tribe and others in Angola, this exhibition catalog accompanies a show originating at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama; editor Jordàn, who spent more than two years with the Chokwe and related tribes, is the museum's curator. The objects are mostly carved wood, but their polished, stylized vision of people and nature and the variety and especially the depth of feeling in masks raise them far above craft. The pieces are shown alone, as in a museum exhibit, with art stressed more than anthropology. To remedy this, seven scholarly articles by authorities on the Chokwe appear throughout, along with photos of native life. While this puts into context objects like whistles, thrones, and the intriguing divination baskets full of tiny magical charms, it has a somewhat choppy effect. One of a series of books on African art by Prestel (e.g., African Art from the Han Corey Collection, LJ 6/15/98), this covers a seldom-visited area rich in heritage. For larger art-oriented and college libraries.AGay W. Neale, Southside Virginia Community Coll. Lib.,

FOSS Perkins

Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art

Détails sur le produit: - Relié: 152 pages - Editeur: Snoeck-Ducaji & Zoon; Édition: illustrated edition (10 mai 2004) - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 9053495061 - ISBN-13: 978-9053495063

Book Description: The Urhobo peoples occupy the western fringe of the Niger River delta in southern Nigeria, an area rich with oil reserves. Since the 1970s, the petroleum industry has brought worldwide wealth and attention to Nigeria, but tragically has also detracted from broad-based economic progress as flow stations, flare-offs, drilling platforms and pipelines have proliferated. As rural economies suffered an inevitable decline, the custom of maintaining traditional Urhobo art has experienced a parallel atrophy. The resultant decline in Urhobo culture has prompted a response among many Urhobo who want to celebrate and preserve their traditions for future generations. The Museum for African Art in New York makes a major contribution to this effort through the presentation of Where Gods and Mortals meet, the first exhibition to showcase Urhobo arts. The exhibition introduces never-before-seen Urhobo art and footage of cultural performances, from yesterday and today. This accompanying catalogue includes approximately 80 works of art: traditional art from the historical period 1850 to 1975, including monumental wood figures, metal and clay sculpture, and masks and costumes with accompanying poetry and song; a small selection of contemporary work by Bruce Onobrakpeya, an Urhobo by birth and one of Africa's foremost artists; plus photos and video footage of extraordinary multimedia masquerades. Edited by Perkins Foss.Essays by John Picton, Perkins Foss, Michael Y. Nabofa, G.G. Darah, Tanure Ojaide, and Bruce Onobrakpeya. Foreword by Peter Ekeh. Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / 141 color and 7

 

FISCHER Eberhard

GURO: Masks, Performances, and Master Carvers in Ivory Coast

 

Détails sur le produit: Relié: 520 pages - 244mm x 45mm x 303mm. - Editeur: Prestel (3 mars 2008) - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 3791339419 - ISBN-13: 978-3791339412

 

Descrizione libro: The Guro people of Africa's Ivory Coast are renowned for their rich mask and sculpture traditions. These objects of joyful and sublime beauty are used in a variety of social and spiritual ceremonies. Art ethnologist Eberhard Fischer has spent decades researching the Guro traditions and documenting their way of life. In this book he presents a collection of hundreds of images, many of them published for the first time, of masks and woodcarvings, as well as lively scenes of Guro dances and artisans at work. Numerous interviews with prominent Guro, including religious officials, carvers, weavers, dancers, and cult masters, enhance the appreciation of this society. Eberhard's unique understanding of the Guro makes this volume a standard work on the art and culture of these

DANFORD John - W.L. Stewart

NIGERIA IN COSTUME

 

Descrizione: The Shell Company of Nigeria Limited, 1960. Hardcover. John Danford (illustratore). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color painting illustrated. 103p. Fine copy in the original blue cloth. Publisher's deluxe full blue morocco stamped in gilt, minor rubbing of front hinge. Langue: Anglais. John Danford OBE was an artist working for the British Council in Nigeria; the Danford Collection of African Arts and Crafts is a nationally important collection at the University of Birmingham. These 48 full page colour reproductions of his paintings show the costumes, uniforms and ceremonial dress of the diverse peoples of Nigeria; the text describes the significance of the details. With a foreword by the Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Preface by Mr. W L Stewart general manager of the Shell Company of Nigeria Limited with a blindstamp signature. Illustrations include: Benin woman chief in ceremonial dress, Festival dress for the Ekong dance Ibibio, Sir Ademola II Alake of Abeokuta, Base drummer, Ilorin local Administration police band, Mother and child Cameroons, Yoruba girl, Ilorin weaver and more. Unpaginated, navy cloth boards with bright gilt lettering on front board and spine, bright red endpapers. Boards slightly scuffed with mild edgewear; interior clean and crisp with no

CHEMECHE George 

 

THE HORSE RIDER IN AFRICAN ART

 

 

Détails sur le produit:

Relié: 384 pages - Dimensione: 240 x 35 x 280 mm - Editeur: ANTIQUE COLLECTORS' CLUB Editions (29 juin 2011) - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 1851496343 - ISBN-13: 978-1851496341

CHEMECHE George - THE HORSE RIDER IN AFRICAN ART

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Horses are very rare in Africa. The few to be found west of Sudan, from the lands of the Sahara and Sahel down to the fringes of the tropical forests, belong to the king, the chief warrior and to notable persons. Due to the dense humidity of the tropical rainforest and the deadly tsetse fly, only restricted numbers of horses survive. And yet rider and mount sculptures are common among the Dogon, Djenne, Bamana, Senufo and the Yoruba people. The Akan - Asante people of Ghana and the Kotoko of Chad produced a good deal of small casting brass and bronze sculptures. Some of the artists could barely even have caught a glimpse of a horse. This visually stunning book presents a wealth of African art depicting the horse and its rider in a variety of guises, from Epa masks and Yoruba divination cups to Dogon sculptures and Senufo carvings. In Mali, the Bamana, Boso and Somono ethnic groups still celebrate the festivals of the puppet masquerade. The final chapter of this book is dedicated to the art and cult of these festivals, which are still alive and well. It is not the habit of the African artist to provide intellectual statements for his work, yet his unique creative dynamic and far-searching vision does not conflict with that of

CAMERON L. Elisabeth

Art of the Lega   -  (ISBN-10: 0930741889 - ISBN-13: 978-0930741884)

Détails sur le produit: Broché: 231 pages - Editeur: Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S.; Édition: illustrated edition (1 mai 2002) Langue: Anglais

Book Description:

Drawing upon diverse sources, including Daniel P. Biebuyckís seminal fieldwork of the 1950s, Elisabeth Cameron investigates the culture and the art of the Lega peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the Lega, art is only created for and used by the Bwami Society. Bwami is a complex organization consisting of multiple levels, and it forms an essential component of the political, social, and religious structure of the Lega. Within Bwami, artworks are used in conjunction with proverbs, anecdotes, and performances to form complex layered metaphors and to serve as mnemonic devices. As initiates move up through the ranks of the Bwami Society, a variety of different artworks assist them in recalling a vast corpus of complex aphorisms. The many beautiful examples of Lega artworks illustrated in this volume are drawn primarily from the Jay T. Last collection and include masks, animals, human forms, miniature tools, and

BOYER Alain-Michel

BAULE

 

Détails sur le produit:

Broché: 176 pages - Editeur: Five Continents Editions (15 mai 2008) 

Collection: Visions of Africa Series - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 8874393865 - ISBN-13: 978-8874393862

 

Book Description

Part of the Visions of Africa series, this is a fascinating and essential overview of the Baule people who inhabit Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Their art is so varied and made with different media, and is shown here through fifty exemplary pieces. The book is baBOYER Alain-Michel: Le corps africain

Détails sur le produit: Relié - Paru le: 24/10/2007 - Editeur: Hazan - Nb. de pages: 219 pages - Poids: 1,665 kg - Dimensions: 22,5cm x 31cm x 2,8cm - Langue : Français - ISBN-10: 2754101640 - ISBN-13: 978-2754101646

Présentation de l'éditeur: Chaque société a toujours voulu accomplir, avec les corps des personnes qui la constituent, des métamorphoses, pour modifier leur image originelle, fabriquer une représentation qui transcende une réalité brute, trop naturelle. Mais en Afrique ces altérations de l'apparence sont également un art, au même titre que les masques, la statuaire. Avec une forme esthétique des coiffures, des peintures corporelles, des parures, aussi accomplie que celle de la sculpture. En certaines contrées, plus le corps est orné, plus sa présence, charnelle, spirituelle, est grandie, sublimée. Pour le transfigurer? Le restituer plutôt à lui-même, le faire devenir ce qu'il est: une peau devenue graphisme, travaillée au même titre que les matières des sculpteurs, des orfèvres. Le magnifier comme on le ferait d'une statue, ce