African Art in Detail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Art in Detail write by Christopher Spring. This book was released on 2009. African Art in Detail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book opens with the question, What is African art? The answer is a brilliantly colorful and detailed look at the myriad materials and genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts and expressions that comprise artistic traditions across this vast and varied continent. Viewing artworks in their contexts--ancient and modern, urban and rural, western and eastern, decorative and functional--the book is nothing less than a virtual tour of African culture. Masks, textiles, royal art, sculpture, ceramics, tools and weapons--in each instance, the book features examples that reveal the most significant aspects of workmanship, materials, and design in objects of wood, stone, ivory, clay, metalwork, featherwork, leather, basketwork, and cloth. Photographs of each piece alongside close-ups of fine details afford new views of these works and allow for intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. The featured details evoke the hand and eye of the most accomplished craftspeople across Africa, past and present. In sum, these photographs, along with Chris Spring's enlightening commentary, offer an experience of African art that is at once broad and deep, richly informed and intimately felt. They are, at the same time, a kaleidoscopic view of art from prehistory to gestures prefiguring the future.
African Art in Transit
African Art in Transit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Art in Transit write by Christopher B. Steiner. This book was released on 1994-01-27. African Art in Transit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect so-called 'primitive' art in Europe and America is based on extensive field research among the art traders in Côte d'Ivoire. Steiner provides a lucid interpretation which reveals not only a complex economic network with its own internal logic and rules, but also an elaborate process of transcultural valuation and exchange. By focusing directly on the intermediaries in the African art trade, he unveils a critical new perspective on how symbolic codes and economic values are mediated in the context of shifting geographic and cultural domains. He questions conventional definitions of authenticity in African art by demonstrating how the categories 'authentic' and 'traditional' are continually redefined.
Art History in Africa
Art History in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art History in Africa write by J. Vansina. This book was released on 2014-06-06. Art History in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader with a systematic method for the historical understanding of African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique, style and meaning of art objects and examines the creative process through which they come into being. Numerous photographs and drawings illustrate his arguments, and help to explain the changes that have taken place.
The Art of Africa
The Art of Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Africa write by Christa Clarke. This book was released on 2006. The Art of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Tribal Arts of Africa
The Tribal Arts of Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tribal Arts of Africa write by Jean-Baptiste Bacquart. This book was released on 2000. The Tribal Arts of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
