Author: Robert Farris ThompsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520038448
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
African Art in Motion
Author: Robert Farris ThompsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520038448
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
African Art in Motion
Author: Robert Farris ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
African Art in Motion
Author: Robert Farris ThompsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520324633
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
African Art in Motion
Author: Robert Farris ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780520027039
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
African Art in Motion : Icon and Art
Author: R. F. ThompsonThe Art Museum as Educator
Author: Barbara Y. NewsomPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520309537
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 2255
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
African Art in Motion
Author: Robert Farris ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780520026858
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
African Art in Motion
Author: African Art in Detail
Author: Christopher SpringPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036222
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
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.
The Art of Africa
Author: Christa ClarkePublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391906
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
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