African Art As Philosophy
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African Art As Philosophy
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Author : Souleymane Bachir Diagne
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2023-09-05
African Art As Philosophy written by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Art categories.
This critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergson’s philosophy. Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of the Republic of Senegal. In African Art as Philosophy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne uses a unique approach to reading Senghor’s influential works, taking as the starting point for his analysis Henri Bergson’s idea that in order to understand philosophers, one must find the initial intuition from which every aspect of their work develops. In the case of Senghor, Diagne argues that his primordial intuition is that African art is a philosophy. To further this point, Diagne looks at what Senghor called the “1889 Revolution” (the year Bergson’s Time and Free Will was published), as well as the influential writers and publications of that period—specifically, Nietzsche and Rimbaud. The 1889 Revolution, Senghor claims, is what led him to the understanding of the “Vitalism” at the core of African religions and beliefs that found expression in the arts.
African Art As Philosophy
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Author : Columbia University. Department of Art History and Archaeology
language : en
Publisher: New York : Interbook
Release Date : 1974
African Art As Philosophy written by Columbia University. Department of Art History and Archaeology and has been published by New York : Interbook this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Art categories.
Incarnations
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Author : Kendell Geers
language : en
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Release Date : 2019
Incarnations written by Kendell Geers and has been published by Silvana Editoriale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Art categories.
ncarNations is at once a mix and exchange between classical and contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas, looking at African art as a living philosophical practice. The masks, images and historic objects act as milestones, anchoring contemporary works in the ancient context of live creation. Taken from Sindika Dokolo's collection, the works of African artists enter into dialogue with those of the diaspora while contemporary works are presented alongside classical works. Artists: Sammy Baloji, William Kentridge, Tracey Rose, Wangechi Mutu, Otobong Nkanga, Yinka Shonibare, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ana Mendieta, Kehinde Wiley, Andres Serrano, Aida Muluneh, Mwangi Hutter, Hank Willis Thomas, Tracey Rose, Adrian Piper, Lubaina Himid, Roger Ballen, Zanele Muholi, Phyllis Galembo.
Flash Of The Spirit
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Author : Robert Farris Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-05-26
Flash Of The Spirit written by Robert Farris Thompson and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-26 with Art categories.
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.
Black Aesthetics
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Author : John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 2013
Black Aesthetics written by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Aesthetics, African categories.
"Since its original publication in 2003, Beauty and Culture has remained the only full-length major book contribution to the area of philosophy of art and aesthetics by an African philosopher. This is an area which has had very little or no critical systematic philosophical discussion from an African and African Diaspora perspective to date, either by African or African Diaspora thinkers or, for that matter, by non-African philosophers and intellectuals, leaving the assessment and discussion of African and Diaspora art and artistic experience to Euro-American intellectuals with scant or warped understanding of the sensitivities and sensibilities that under-gird the art they are commenting on. This book which harks back to the ideas of values relating to the concept of beauty in Africana art and aesthetics globally--starting from ancient Africa, the Americas to Europe and to Asia--is predicated on the fact that there is a need for Africana peoples to begin to take a closer look at aesthetics from the Africana perspective or whatever is left of it; especially, the relationship this has to notions of morality, politics, religion, and culture generally. Over the last decade there has grown recognition of the importance of taking African aesthetics into consideration on its own terms, but the nature of the issues discussed in this book has made it necessary to provide non-philosophers a background introduction to the challenge of African philosophy of art. This accounts for the careful effort made in the first three chapters (Introduction, Biographical Details, and The Nature of the Philosophic Enterprise: Initial Issues) to introduce the readers interested in Africana aesthetics, to the rudiments of debates in African philosophy and the nature of scholarship in the discipline, using the experience of the author as illustration. The fourth chapter (Contemporary Scholarship on (Africana) Arts) reviews the discussion of African art in extant literature, while in chapter five (Artistic Expression in Africa) the author explores the nature of art and artistic expression in Africana societies; and chapter six (Philosophy and Artistic Expression in Africa) deals with the problematic of philosophizing the arts and values relating to artistic expression in Africana societies, with chapter seven (Arts, Memory and Identity) considering the critical issues involved in the relationship between art, memory, culture and identity structuring and development in all human societies, but especially in Africana societies. The last chapter (Conclusion) harnesses the inferences of this book, indicating further the challenges which Africana philosophers face in the proper appreciation of Africa and Diaspora art" ABOUT THE AUTHOR JOHN AYOTUNDE ISOLA BEWAJI, is the Jay Newman Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Culture, Brooklyn College and Professor of Philosophy, University of the West Indies; founding President of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies and John Simon Guggenheim Research Fellow (2010-2011). Publisher's note.
Beauty And Culture
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Author : John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Beauty And Culture written by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Aesthetics, African categories.
Prophecies And Protests
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Author : Henk van den Heuvel
language : en
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Release Date : 2006
Prophecies And Protests written by Henk van den Heuvel and has been published by Rozenberg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
What can managers around the globe learn from the indigenous African term ""Ubuntu"" (humane-ness)?For the first time ever, ""African management"" advocates, interpretative scholars, and academic skeptics, are brought together in a unique book, displaying the richness of the debate on Afrocentric management vision. This debate is characterized by polarization, cultural protest, emancipatory aspiration, mystification and opportunism. Prophecies and Protests offers a broad spectrum of remarkably diverse views from different backgrounds, and could be seen as an important step to foster the dialogue between protagonists and critics, between practitioners and academics. Especially today, the central theme of the book is relevant, in an era of worldwide cultural diffusion, and a longing for authenticity and romanticized histories.
African Philosophy As Cultural Inquiry
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Author : Ivan Karp
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-22
African Philosophy As Cultural Inquiry written by Ivan Karp and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-22 with History categories.
This book assesses the direction and impact of African philosophy as well as its future role. What is the intellectual, social, cultural, and political territory of African philosophy? What directions will African philosophy take in the future? What problems will it face? In 10 probing essays by distinguished African, European, and American scholars, African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry examines the role of African philosophy at the opening of the new millennium. Here philosophy cuts across disciplinary boundaries to embrace ideas taken from history, literary studies, anthropology, and art. Addressing topics such as the progress of philosophical discourse, knowledge and modes of thought, the relevance of philosophy for cultures that are still largely based on traditional values, and the meaning of philosophy to cultures and individuals in the process of modernization, this volume presents today's best thinking about the concerns and practices that constitute African experience. New views about personhood, freedom, responsibility, progress, development, the role of the state, and life in civil society emerge from these broad-based considerations of the crisis of the postcolonial African state. In a lively fashion this diverse book shows how philosophical questions can be applied to interpretations of culture and reveals the multifaceted nature of philosophical discourse in the multiple and variable settings that exist in contemporary Africa.
African Philosophy
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Author : Guttorm Fløistad
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
African Philosophy written by Guttorm Fløistad and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
This publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chroni cles, Philosophy of the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Con temporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Klibansky. Like the other series, these chronicles provide a survey of significant trends in contemporary philosophical discussion from 1970 to 1985. The need for such surveys has, I believe, increased rather than decreased over the last years. The philosophical scene appears, for various reasons, more complex than ever before. The continuing process of specialization in most branches, the emergence of new schools of thought, the convergence of interest (thought not neces sarily of opinion) of different traditions upon certain problems, the increasing attention being paid to the history of philosophy in discussions of contemporary problems, and the growing signifi cance for philosophical discourse of the social, political and cul tural situation in various regions of the world are the most impor tant contributory factors. Surveys of the present kind are a valu able source of knowledge of this complexity and may as such be an assistance in renewing the understanding of one's own philo sophical problems. The surveys, it is to be hoped, may also help to strengthen a world-wide Socratic element of modern philosophy, the dialogue or Kommunikationsgemeinschaft. So far, five volumes have been prepared for the new series.
In Search Of Meaning In African Art
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Author : William Buller Fagg
language : en
Publisher:
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In Search Of Meaning In African Art written by William Buller Fagg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.