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Author : Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts of Africa written by Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This beautifully illustrated volume highlights all the rich diversity of African cultures through a meaningful selection of masterpieces of traditional African art."--Global Books in Print.

Author : Monica Blackmun Visonà
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780136128724
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Art in Africa written by Monica Blackmun Visonà and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Informed by the latest scholarship yet written for the general reader, this has been the first comprehensive study to present the arts of Africa in art historical terms. A History of Art in Africa covers all parts of the continent, including Egypt, from prehistory to the present day and includes the art of the African Diaspora. Many aspects of visual culture are given detailed consideration, including sculpture, architecture, and such quintessentially African forms as masquerades, festivals, and personal adornment. The arts of daily life, of royal ceremony, and of state cosmology receive compelling discussions. Throughout, the authors emphasize the cultural contexts in which art is produced and imbued with meanings." "Among the ancient works illustrated are masterpieces in brass, gold, ivory, stone and terracotta. Religious arts serving Islamic and Christian communities are presented, as are fascinating hybrid arts that periodically arose from African interactions with Europe, Asia and the Americas. Twentieth-century arts are explored as part of the vibrancy of modern Africa and as ingenious responses to historical change. 'Twenty-first-century African artists, and artists of the African Diaspora, are presented in the context of changing global economies and new theoretical positions." "This expanded and revised second edition provides a new chapter on African artists working abroad, and five new short essays on cross-cultural topics such as tourist arts, dating methods, and the illicit trade in archaeological artifacts. The illustrations - featuring a vast and rich array of images of artworks, archival and contemporary field photographs, explanatory drawings and plans, and individual objects displayed in museums and in use - have likewise been greatly extended, with many more pictures now shown in color."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Stepan
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa written by Peter Stepan and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 mesterværker - fra arkæologiske fund over middelalderen til det 20. århundredes kunst

Author : Pamela McClusky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691092751
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art from Africa written by Pamela McClusky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects-- in the Seatle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art."

Author : Herman Burssens
Publisher : Quo Vadis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Differences written by Herman Burssens and published by Quo Vadis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Africa, the materials that are used to make objects of daily and ritual life are profoundly significant. Material is meaning. Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa examines the different layers of meaning inherent in the material of each object. Many African cultures believe that mineral and organic materials contain supernatural powers that are associated with protection, healing or with leadership. Some of these materials-wood, ivory, stone, clay, or metals such as iron, copper alloys, and gold-are laden with symbolic significance. The exhibition and this publication investigate the numerous factors that lead to the choice of specific materials in the creation of works of art in sub-Saharan Africa." --Google Books.

Author : Betty LaDuke
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa written by Betty LaDuke and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, women's passion to create is evident during times of peace as well as war, under favorable circumstances as well as the most difficult and dangerous imaginable. Their media of expression can be naturally derived or imported. It can vary from monumental stone sculpture to intricate beadwork, or from painting with mud to oil and acrylic. The passion to decorate is evident in daily life from the designs applied to the smallest clay bowls, to the sturdy mud walls of their compounds where women give birth or see life pass away. These decorations are frequently symbolic and the motifs can please as well as reinforce shared community values. Across the African continent, from Timbuktu, Mali to Harare, Zimbabwe or Asmara, Eritrea, whether women weave, sew, sketch, paint, create fabric applique or stone sculptures, their art work often incorporates the duality of myth and reality as they express their hopes, fears, humor, and frustrations.

Author : Christa Clarke
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391906
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Africa written by Christa Clarke and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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

Author : Marcel Griaule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Art of Black Africa written by Marcel Griaule and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of African primitive art and its meaning in the religious and social life of the African tribes.

Author : Avner Shakarov
Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781641823876
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of Africa Encyclopedia written by Avner Shakarov and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having spent a good many years as a researcher of African art, I understand that education is of critical importance. This Encyclopedia is designed to bring benefits of knowledge to students, artists, collectors and for all lovers of African traditional art and culture. Avner Shakarov introduces African art in the context of the peoples who created it. Students and artists will find this Encyclopedia: Art of Africa as a fresh handbook, thought-provoking and a good deal more scholarly than most other writings on African art. African art has taken its place among the great art traditions of the world. It was collected as souvenirs and curios by European travelers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Later, a great deal was written about its influence on Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and other western artists. This book is well researched and studied in the rich heritage of black Africa through its most distinctive form, sculpture, and covers the entire continent. The book contains 95 images of African art, 30 tribal and village photos, 16 drawings and 5 maps to help locate geographically the peoples who created the works of art.

Author : Judith von D. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in East Africa written by Judith von D. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: