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Author : David Wall
language : en
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
Release Date : 1998
Visions Of Africa written by David Wall and has been published by New Holland Australia(AU) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Photography categories.
A coffee-table book, including some photographs from Namibia.
Fang
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Author : Louis Perrois
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2006
Fang written by Louis Perrois and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
Fang art is one of the most distinguished arts of Black Africa. Its masks, with their facial markings, abstract features and strong, elegant lines, were among the most influential in 20th century modern art. Fang figures, called Bieri, are renowned for their child-like proportions contrasted with a muscular, poised vigilance. Fang art also includes iron currency and other objects that exhibit the traditional African ability to making everyday functional objects things of artistic merit. Fang reviews these artifacts and their social, ritual or symbolic characters. Statuettes related to ancestors, dance masks of the various rites, insignia of power, headdresses and jewellery, decorated music instruments and everyday utensils, all have an amazingly varied aesthetic creativity, in harmony with their profuse world of beliefs and myths.
Yoruba
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Author : Babatunde Lawal
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Yoruba written by Babatunde Lawal and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Art categories.
Art features prominently in the culture of the Yoruba, a people numbering more than 25 million and subdivided into different kingdoms in Nigeria and adjacent regions. It both enriches life and is used to venerate and influence deities. This new book explores the archaeological and historical evidence that suggests that by the beginning of the second millennium, many Yoruba kingdoms had become major urban centers with highly developed economic, cultural, political, and religious institutions. Drawing on field observations, contextual analyses, oral sources, and published materials, this book offers insight into the poetics and dynamics of Yoruba art and the belief that the “beautiful” or “well-made” generates a special power that commands attention.
Pende
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Author : Z. S. Strother
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2008-10
Pende written by Z. S. Strother and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Architecture categories.
Lavish illustrations feature both iconic and never-before-published Pende masterworks, selected to
Kota Visions Of Africa Series
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Author : Louis Perrois
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Kota Visions Of Africa Series written by Louis Perrois and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Art categories.
"This new title in the Visions of Africa series offers a deep insight into the art of the Kota people of Gabon in the coastal area of western equatorial Africa. The Kota have developed an astonishing creativity in their representations of their ancestors. Their dreamlike figures combine a sharp sense of stylized reality tending towards abstraction with an extraordinary and imaginative use of copper, tin, and iron for purposes of decoration. But what seems to have been just a matter of aesthetic "taste" has in fact a symbolic function, as most of the decorative motifs and the choice of the technique are linked to the Kota's kinship system or religious beliefs. The same applies to the use of copper, which was a rare material and consequently a mark of wealth and power in their society. The mbulu-ngulu reliquary figure was an icon, the visual sign of a world in which the ancestors continued to watch over their descendants. In Kota lands it was an essential "tool" in group survival, one that enabled a continuous communication to be established between the living and the dead. The reliquary figures and initiation masks of the Kota and Mbete served as aides-mémoire and instruments useful in arousing the forces of the netherworld among the Gabonese and Congolese in times past. Together with the Fang byeri and other nkisi punu, in their various forms they have gradually become the time-honoured emblems of the culture and ancestral values of the peoples of the great African equatorial forest." -- Publisher's description
Visions Of Africa
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Author : Mirella Ricciardi
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1999-10
Visions Of Africa written by Mirella Ricciardi and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10 with Africa categories.
Part-diary, part-reminiscence, part-photograph album, this book presents a picture of life in Africa from the 1920s to the present day, as seen through the lens of Mirella Ricciardi, arguably one of the greatest photographers to work in Africa.
African Voices African Visions
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Author : Olugbenga Adesida
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2004
African Voices African Visions written by Olugbenga Adesida and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Does Africa have a future? What are the visions, hopes, ambitions and fears of young Africans for the future of the world, the continent, their nation, and their communities? How do they envision this world and their roles within it? These issues have not previously been explored collectively by Africans because of the enormous challenges and the preoccupation with the present. But Africa must not allow the enormity of the problems to blind it to its past and future. Africa must chart its own vision of a desirable future, and therefore young Africans, born just before or after independence, were challenged to reflect on the future of the continent. This book presents the response to that challenge. In this book, the voices of a new generation of Africa are heard exploring the future from personal and diverse perspectives. The authors have enumerated the ills of Africa, analyzed the problems and explored the opportunities. Remarkably, despite the daunting nature of the challenges, they were all hopeful about the future. They provided their visions of the future, suggest numerous ideas on how to build a new Africa, and implored Africans to take responsibility for the transformation of the continent. Given the current emphasis on African renaissance and union, the ideas presented here could become the basis for a truly shared vision for the continent.
Chokwe
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Author : Boris Wastiau
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2006
Chokwe written by Boris Wastiau and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
This introduction to the visual art of one of the most renowned peoples of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo deals exclusively with sculpture. After providing a brief history of the Chokwe, the different chapters examine the figurines used in the ritual of divination, the statuary connected with the humba possession cults, antique (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) classical statuary referred to as of the native land, court items, privileges of the warrior aristocracy, and wooden masks linked to the chieftianship and the initiation rites of circumcision. Particular attention is devoted to the precious effigies of Chibinda Ilunga, the civilising hero of the myths of the origins, almost all the exemplars of which were brought to Europe in the nineteenth century, as well as to chairs, whose symbolism and function are revelatory both of the religion and the hierarchical structure of the chieftianship.
Punu
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Author : Louis Perrois
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2008-09
Punu written by Louis Perrois and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Art categories.
A guide to Punu art by a world authority on the aesthetics and use of ritual objects by the peoples of southern Gabon.
Bamana
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Author : Jean-Paul Colleyn
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Bamana written by Jean-Paul Colleyn and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Art categories.
General Adult. Focuses on the aesthetic qualities of the masterpieces of Bamana religious art in Mali. This book emphasises on pieces used in rites of passage, agricultural cooperatives and passage, and agricultural cooperatives.