African Tribal Sculptures

Author : Jean Baptiste Bacquart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500282315
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribal Arts of Africa written by Jean Baptiste Bacquart and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work displays and defines the fruits of thousands of years of black African creative endeavour. All the objects included were made by Africans for their own use, spanning a period from the beginning of the first millennium to the early 20th century, before the commercial production of art aimed at the tourist trade.

Author : University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Tribal Sculpture written by University of Pennsylvania. University Museum and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sculpture, West African -- Sculpture, Primitive -- Africa, West - Exhibitions

Author : William Buller Fagg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribes and Forms in African Art written by William Buller Fagg and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the exhibition Africa: 100 Stm̃me, 100 Meisterwerke, sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom at the Berlin Festival, 1964./ Includes bibliography.

Author : William Fagg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780416908503
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book African Tribal Sculptures written by William Fagg and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brooklyn Museum
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791343211
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book African Art written by Brooklyn Museum and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brooklyn Museum was one of the first North American institutions to collect and exhibit African material culture as art rather than artifact. Today the museum's collection numbers more than six thousand pieces and is noted for its artistic quality and educational value, as well as a breadth and depth that would be impossible to achieve today. Ancient as well as contemporary art is included in the collection's vast holdings, while the figurative sculpture and masks of Central Africa comprise its most significant focus. Nearly two hundred of those pieces are featured in this large-format compendium, which includes essays by the museum's curator of African art and a leading scholar on the subject. Taking readers through a cultural exploration of the continent, the collection encompasses regions from Western Sudan and the Southwestern Congo to the Equatorial Forest and Ethiopia. Carefully photographed and presented in luminous colour, these pieces create a stunning introduction to the rich traditions of African art and culture. AUTHORS: William Siegman served as the Brooklyn Museum's curator of African and Oceanic art from 1987 until his retirement in 2007. He is currently a consulting curator with the Saint Louis Art Museum. Joseph Adande lectures at the National University of Benin, Abomey-Calavi. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Kevin D. Dumouchelle is Interim Assistant Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands at the Brooklyn Museum. ILLUSTRATIONS 235 images

Author : William A. Fagaly
Publisher : Scala Books
ISBN 13 : 9781857596984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestors of Congo Square written by William A. Fagaly and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive book on the extraordinary collection of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, considered one of the best in the United States.

Author : High Museum of Art
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Tribal Art written by High Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588394328
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Heroic Africans written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued 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.

Author : Ladislas Segy
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Sculpture Speaks written by Ladislas Segy and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1975 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full appraisal of African art published in the United States, African Sculpture Speaks describes and illustrates the sculpted works of more than 150 West African tribes.

Author : Peter Breunig
Publisher : Africa Magna Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3937248463
Total Pages : 103 pages
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Download or read book Nok written by Peter Breunig and published by Africa Magna Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insights into the archaeological context of the Nok Culture in Nigeria (West Africa). It was first published in German accompanying the same-titled exhibition “Nok – Ein Ursprung afrikanischer Skulptur” at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung in Frankfurt (30th October 2013 – 23rd March 2014) and has now been translated into English. A team of archaeologists from the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main has been researching the Nok Culture since 2005. The results are now presented to the public. The Nok Culture existed for about 1500 years – from around the mid-second millennium BCE to the turn of the Common Era. It is mainly known by the elaborate terracotta sculptures which were likewise the focus of the exhibition. The research of the archaeologists from Frankfurt, however, not only concerns the terracotta figures. They investigate the Nok Culture from a holistic perspective and put it into the larger context of the search for universal developments in the history of mankind. Such a development – important because it initiated a new era of the past – is the transition from small groups of hunters and gatherers to large communities with complex forms of human co-existence. This process took place almost everywhere in the world in the last 10,000 years, although in very different ways. The Nok Culture represents an African variant of that process. It belongs to a group of archaeological cultures or human groups, who in part subsisted on the crops they were growing and lived in mostly small but permanent settlements in the savanna regions south of the Sahara from the second millennium BCE onwards. The discovery of metallurgy is the next turning point in the development of the first farming cultures. In Africa the first metal used was not copper or bronze as in the Near East and Europe, but iron. The people of the Nok Culture were among the first that produced iron south of the Sahara. This happened in the first millennium BCE – about 1000 years after the agricultural beginning. While iron metallurgy spread rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa, the terracotta sculptures remained a cultural monopoly of the Nok Culture. Nothing comparable existed in Africa outside of Ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean coast. The oldest, securely dated clay figures date back to the early first millennium BCE. Currently, it seems as if they appeared in the Nok Culture before iron metallurgy, reaching their peak in the following centuries. At the end of the first millennium BCE they disappeared from the scene. There is hardly any doubt about the ritual character of the Nok sculptures. Yet, central questions remain unanswered: Why did such an apparently complex world of ritual practices develop in an early farming culture just before or at the beginning of the momentous invention of iron production? Why were the elaborate sculptures – as excavations show – intentionally destroyed? And why did they disappear as suddenly as they emerged?