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The Authenticity of African Sculptures
by Henri Kamer
The issue of authenticity of African art has been central to collectors for decades. Henri Kamer, who was president of the International Arts Experts Association at the time, published an outstanding account of the state of the matter in Artes d'Afrique Noire, No. 12 (1974). The text that follows is extracted from an English translation of that article, and has been edited further. The original includes a number of illustrations. They are not included here because I believe the text suffices without them.
The original version, including the illustrations, in French and with the English translation, is
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Oba du Benin
L'Oba du Benin est le dirigeant de l'ancien royaume du Benin. Il n’a plus de réel pouvoir depuis l'annexion du royaume par les Britanniques en 1897. Il garde cependant un rôle consultatif au sein du gouvernement. Il garde aussi une forte influence sur la population Edo pour laquelle il a une nature semi-divine. Son palais se trouve dans la ville actuelle de Benin City (État d'Edo, Nigeria).
Le premier Oba du Benin est Eweka, le fils d'Oranmiyan, un prince venu d'Ife qui détruisit la tyrannique dynastie des Ogisos qui régnait depuis 35 générations sur le peuple Edo, et d'Ekinwide, une princesse Edo. Dans un premier temps le pouvoir restait au concile des chefs, le Uzama, avec l'Oba à sa tête. Sous le règne d'Oba Ewedo, qui transfère la capitale à Ubini, le pouvoir commence à passer plus fermement entre les mains de l'Oba. À partir d'Oba Ewuare, son pouvoir devient absolu et le titre devient héréditaire.
L'Oba jouissait autrefois d'un très grand pouvoir et son titre revêtait un caractère sacré.
L'Oba du Benin au xvie siècle, gravure édité en 1815-1827
Au xvie siècle, apparaissent ce que l'on appelle « les rois guerriers ». Le royaume a été significativement agrandi durant le xvie siècle. D'ailleurs, cette importance soudaine de la guerre se traduisit dans l'art par une représentation massive de chefs de guerre, les nombreuses têtes de bronze faisant office de trophées (voir ci-dessous). Les représentations figuratives associées à des éléments symboliques sont mises
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African Art on the Internet
15th Triennial Symposium on African Art, Arts Council of the African Studies Association, 2011, Wednesday, March 23 - Saturday, March 26, 2011, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
http://www.acasaonline.org/conf_next.htm
Addis Art - Ethiopian Art and Artists Page
Contemporary Ethiopian art and artists - paintings, sculptures and digital art work by students and professionals from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. University instructor, Getahun Assefa's paintings, drawings, sculpture, digital art. Also work by his brother, Tesfaye Assefa. Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [KF] http://www.addisart.com/
Addis Art - Nouveau Art from Ethiopia
Artists include Shiferaw Girma and Lulseged Retta. Photographs of each artist's work, a biography, and video. Founded by Mesai Haileleul. [KF] http://www.addis-art.com/
Adire African Textiles - Duncan Clarke
History, background, and photographs of adire, adinkra, kente, bogolan, Yoruba aso-oke, akwete, ewe, kuba, and nupe textiles. The symbolism of images is often provided. One can purchase textiles as well. Clarke's Ph.D. dissertation (School of Oriental and African Studies) is on Yoruba men's weaving. See also the Adire African Textiles blog. Based in London. http://www.adireafricantextiles.com/
Afewerk Tekle
"Ethiopia’s leading artist." Biography, his paintings, sculptures, mosaics, murals, art in the artist's home. Afewerk created the stained-glass windows at the entrance of Africa Hall, headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. "In 1964, he became the first winner of the Haile Selassie I prize for Fine Arts." "In 2000, he was one of the few chosen World Laureates by the council of the ABI on the occasion of the 27th
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KOLOSS Hans-Joachim
Africa Art and Culture: Masterpieces of African Art - Ethnological Museum, Berlin
Détails sur le produit:
Relié: 240 pages - Editeur: Prestel; Édition: illustrated edition (14 septembre 2005)
Collection: African, Asian & Oceanic Art - Langue: Anglais
ISBN-10: 3791327720 - ISBN-13: 978-3791327723
KOLOSS Hans-Joachim - Africa Art and Culture: Masterpieces of African Art: Ethnological Museum, Berlin
Descrizione del prodotto - Book Description - Publisher comments
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Book Description
One of the leading collections of African art in the world, the African collection at Berlin’s Ethnological Museum contains important masterpieces from many different regions of the continent.
This stunning book includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white reproductions of masks, ceremonial figures, musical instruments, and objects of everyday life from throughout Africa. Among the jewels in the museum are the Ife Collection from Nigeria; rare Benin bronzes; Afro-Portuguese ivories; magical figures from the Lower Congo and a host of East African sculpture and masks that have gained increasing attention in recent years. Essays by leading ethnologists supply important cultural and historical information on each region, as well as fascinating insights into the ways European and African art have traded influences over the
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Duchâteau Armand
con nota introduttiva di Ezio Bassani
TESORI REALI DEL BENIN: ARTE DI UN ANTICO REGNO AFRICANO
Dalla Collezione del Museum für Völkerkunde - Vienna
Edizioni: Artificio s.r.l. - Firenze -1991
Brossura - pagg.168, cm 21,5 x 27,5 - ill. colore e b/n - Lingua: Italiana
Catalogo edito in occasione della Mostra a Bologna,
Museo Civico Archeologico: 24 Aprile - 30 Giugno
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DANFORD John - W.L. Stewart
NIGERIA IN COSTUME
Descrizione: The Shell Company of Nigeria Limited, 1960. Hardcover. John Danford (illustratore). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color painting illustrated. 103p. Fine copy in the original blue cloth. Publisher's deluxe full blue morocco stamped in gilt, minor rubbing of front hinge. Langue: Anglais. John Danford OBE was an artist working for the British Council in Nigeria; the Danford Collection of African Arts and Crafts is a nationally important collection at the University of Birmingham. These 48 full page colour reproductions of his paintings show the costumes, uniforms and ceremonial dress of the diverse peoples of Nigeria; the text describes the significance of the details. With a foreword by the Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Preface by Mr. W L Stewart general manager of the Shell Company of Nigeria Limited with a blindstamp signature. Illustrations include: Benin woman chief in ceremonial dress, Festival dress for the Ekong dance Ibibio, Sir Ademola II Alake of Abeokuta, Base drummer, Ilorin local Administration police band, Mother and child Cameroons, Yoruba girl, Ilorin weaver and more. Unpaginated, navy cloth boards with bright gilt lettering on front board and spine, bright red endpapers. Boards slightly scuffed with mild edgewear; interior clean and crisp with no
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COSSA Egidio - PAUDRAT Jean-Louis
a cura di Chantal Dandrieu e Fabrizio Giovagnoni
Passione d'Africa: l'arte africana nelle collezioni italiane
Détails sur le produit:
Editore: OFFICINA LIBRARIA SRL
Pubblicazione: 10/2009
Rilegato - Pagine: 240
COSSA Egidio - PAUDRAT Jean-Louis - a cura di Chantal Dandrieu e Fabrizio Giovagnoni:
Passione d'Africa: l'arte africana nelle collezioni italiane
Présentation de l'éditeur - Biographie de l'auteur
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Passione d’Africa traccia la storia del collezionismo di arte dell’Africa subsahariana in Italia – o di italiani residenti all’estero – a partire dagli anni cinquanta fino ai nostri giorni. Il volume, con una introduzione di Egidio Cossa, riproduce oltre 130 capolavori, selezionati per il loro valore estetico e perché illustrano le tappe di questa vicenda collezionistica.
Il libro vuole restituire una fotografia oggettiva, senza partiti presi o pretese di esclusività, del collezionismo d’arte africana in Italia. Lo fa con l’ampio saggio di Jean-Louis Paudrat e con la completissima crono-bibliografia dello stesso studioso che elenca oltre cinquant’anni di pubblicazioni, mostre, convegni ed aste di arte africana in Italia. Da questa ricognizione emerge una nuova immagine del collezionismo d’arte africana in Italia, a torto ritenuto un ‘parente
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BEDAUX Rogier et VAN DER WAALS Diderik
REGARDS SUR LES DOGON DU MALI
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Rijksmuseum / Snieck, 2004. Couverture rigide. très bel ouvrage sur les Dogon, proposant une vue d'ensemble du patrimoine culturel des Dogon: leur art, leur culture matèrielle, leur architecture et leur histoire. - ISBN 9789053494219
BAY G. Edna
Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art
Détails sur le produit: Relié: 188 pages - Editeur: University of Illinois Press (15 avril 2008) - Langue: Anglais
ISBN-10: 0252032551 - ISBN-13: 978-0252032554
Descrizione libro: Asen, metal sculptures of southern Benin, West Africa, are created to honour the dead and are meant to encourage interaction between visible and spiritual worlds in ancestral rites associated with the belief system known as vodun. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the former Kingdom of Dahomey, Bay traces more than 150 years of transformations in the manufacture and symbolic meanings of asen against the backdrop of a slave-raiding monarchy, domination by French colonialism, and postcolonial political and social change. Bay expertly reads evidence of the area's turbulent history through analysis of asen motifs as she describes the diverse influences affecting the process of asen production from the point of their probable invention to their current decline in use. Paradoxically, asen represent a sacred African art form, yet are created using European materials and technologies and are embellished with figures drawn from tourist production. Bay's meticulously researched artistic and historical study is a fascinating Présentation de l'éditeur
Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leyde. Gand: Editions Snoeck,
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BAY G. Edna
Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art
Détails sur le produit: Relié: 188 pages - Editeur: University of Illinois Press (15 avril 2008) - Langue: Anglais
ISBN-10: 0252032551 - ISBN-13: 978-0252032554
Descrizione libro: Asen, metal sculptures of southern Benin, West Africa, are created to honour the dead and are meant to encourage interaction between visible and spiritual worlds in ancestral rites associated with the belief system known as vodun. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the former Kingdom of Dahomey, Bay traces more than 150 years of transformations in the manufacture and symbolic meanings of asen against the backdrop of a slave-raiding monarchy, domination by French colonialism, and postcolonial political and social change. Bay expertly reads evidence of the area's turbulent history through analysis of asen motifs as she describes the diverse influences affecting the process of asen production from the point of their probable invention to their current decline in use. Paradoxically, asen represent a sacred African art form, yet are created using European materials and technologies and are embellished with figures drawn from tourist production. Bay's meticulously researched artistic and historical study is a fascinating exploration of creativity and change within Benin's
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WHAT IS AFRICAN ART?
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‘African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection’
This female figure, made of ivory and standing 37 inches tall, was made in the early Nineteenth Century by Edo peoples in the Benin kingdom court style, and was probably intended for an altar to a queen mother. It is one of the first two objects purchased by Paul and Ruth Tishman in 1959. "Ivory can be almost universally interpreted as a symbol of importance and wealth,” says exhibition curator Bryna Freyer.
WASHINGTON D.C.:Most Americans know little about the vast and diverse continent of Africa, much less the arts created there. Dark and primitive, the arts of the African peoples reflect the rituals of life, stripped to the most basic interpretive forms both conceptually and artistically.
Celebrating the arts of Africa and the profound role that they have played in molding Twentieth Century Abstraction and Modernist art in the "West" is the Smithsonian's newest exhibition, "African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection." It is on view through September 7, 2008, at The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art (NMAA).
"African Vision" showcases 88 outstanding artworks, part of a larger collection donated to the NMAA, that represents the largest gift of sculpture in the museum's history.
In 1959, Paul and Ruth Tishman began their collection with the purchase of two pieces of art from the Benin kingdom — an early Nineteenth Century ivory female figure standing 37 inches tall, made in the court style by the Edo peoples, and a 28-inch-tall, Eighteenth Century copper alloy mask that was worn by a divine-healer in masquerade
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The Nok civilization
The Nok civilization was discovered recently, in 1943 a fragment of a terracotta statue was unearthed in a tin mine near Nok on the Jos Plateau in central Nigeria. Following the discovery of other pieces of statues of high artistic quality were found near the city of Sokoto and creates lots of reactions when they appeared on the market of Western art. Since that date the statues from the city of Katsina still in northern Nigeria have been discovered, but like most of these magnificent statues excavated from unregulated very little information has reached us about their functions.
Several styles of terracotta statues were identified all dated between 400 BC and 200 AD there is currently very difficult to know if these styles correspond to different traditions or they are just regional variations.
More statues of styles, differences were found in the same regions, such as a number of terracotta-called classical style have been discovered in the region of Katsina to three hundred kilometers from their cultural center: the town of Nok.
It is likely that future research will give us more information on what is currently one of the great mysteries of African art.
The classical style known as Nok terracotta, includes statues of real size, with large elongated heads , hair forms developed and we identified them especially thanks to the eyes of an eyebrow and upper linear lower curve of an eyebrow, Their body is usually decorated with many jewels in terracotta, reminiscent of beads stones otherwise similar to those that were found during excavations.
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The Yoruba
The term Yoruba describes both a language and a tribe living between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin, in an area covered by forests and savannah. Their history can be traced from the beginning of our millennium, with the civilization of Ife. Following the collapse of the kingdom of Ife kingdom of a number such as Oyo and Ijebu emerged, they in turn disintegrated during the 18th and 19th, but were revived by the colonial powers, to the end of the 19th. Today they are still the basis of the Yoruba political structure. The slave trade touched heavily Yoruba people of Nigeria and he contributed to their diaspora and the release of their rites and beliefs.
The Yoruba are prolific craftsmen, most Yoruba art objects dating from between the late 19 th and the middle of this century, and can sometimes be attributed to known artists by their names, which is an exception in African art.
During the XVI, the Ijebu kingdom, ruled areas near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. copper imported by sailors, was traded by the Portuguese Ijebu and many bronze objects were created by their artists. These objects reflect the influence of their neighbors, the Kingdom of Benin. Nevertheless, their bells and bracelets scepters are usually decorated with figures, half human, half animal with eyes bulging and curved scars on his forehead.
The empire of Oyo between the XVII and XIX was located in the northern territories or peoples
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JACQUES KERCHACHE Biographie Jacques Kerchache est né le 6 août 1942 à Rouen. Marié à Anne Diagne, il était père de deux filles, Maya et Deborah. Il a effectué de nombreux voyages d’études entre 1959 et 1980 en Afrique, en Asie, en Amérique et en Océanie à l’occasion desquels il a dressé un inventaire critique des grandes collections de sculptures. En 1960, il ouvre une galerie rue des Beaux-Arts à Paris puis une autre rue de Seine qui fermera en 1981. Il y expose aussi bien des artistes contemporains (Malaval, Pol Bury, Sam Szafran…) que de “ l’art primitif ” : Art primitif-Amérique du Nord (1965), Fleuve Sépik - Nouvelle-Guinée (1967), Les Lobi See the continuation... ]
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L’essentiel
Le pavillon ressemble à la foi au Palais royal d’Abomey et au château tradtionnel TATA. Il introduit le bateau de pêche comme élément de conception et adopte des objets d’artisanat locaux et des oeuvres d’art pour expliquer l’urbanisation des campagnes du Bénin de notre époque. L’intérieur du pavillon est divisé en espace central d’exposition et espace complémentaire. A ne pas manquer 1
L’espace central fait voir les paysages culturels, les maisons traditionnelles, les oeuvres d’art et les objets d’artisanat du Bénin y compris des reliefs en bronze, des sculptures sur bois et sur ivoire. A ne pas manquer 2
L’espace complémentaire dévoile la situation actuelle des campagnes et des villes du Bénin et fait savoir les réflexions sur «Interaction entre villes et campagnes». Pavillon de Bénin
Située au sud de l’Afrique centrale, la République du Bénin dispose d’une pêche particulièrement développée. De forme étirée, le relief de l'ensemble du pays est peu accidenté.
Depuis 1967, le Bénin a participé à Universal Exhibition Hannover 2000 et Exposition Internationale de 2005, Aichi, Japon.
Numéro de section : L-14
Thème : Insertion des Terroirs Villageois en Ville comme
Moteur de Développement Durable
Des réflexions menées autour du sous thème de l’Expo 2010 «Interaction entre la Ville et la Campagne » président le pavillon, qui incarne la voie et la notion du développement intégral de la ville en concertation avec l’insertion des terroirs villageois.
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This is a copy of the catalogue of the exhibition of 1923 in Brooklyn Museum, In 1903 Stewart Culin became the founding curator of the department of ethnology at the museum of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, now the Brooklyn museum Culin a self taught ethnologist built the foundation of four curatorial collections for the museum, acquiring objects representing African Asian native American and estaern European culture Culin was among the first curator to recognize museum installation as an art form, he was also among the first to display ethnological as art objects, not as ethnographic specimens. This approach is evidenced in his exhibition “primitive negro art” The exhibition opened in april 1923 and displayed African objects he had acquired in Europe from dealers. Along with his colleagues Culin set the parameters for cultural representation in museum through his collection decisions and innovative installations.
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This is a copy of the catalogue of the exhibition of 1923 in Brooklyn Museum, In 1903 Stewart Culin became the founding curator of the department of ethnology at the museum of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, now the Brooklyn museum Culin a self taught ethnologist built the foundation of four curatorial collections for the museum, acquiring objects representing African Asian native American and estaern European culture Culin was among the first curator to recognize museum installation as an art form, he was also among the first to display ethnological as art objects, not as ethnographic specimens. This approach is evidenced in his exhibition “primitive negro art” The exhibition opened in april 1923 and displayed African objects he had acquired in Europe from dealers. Along with his colleagues Culin set the parameters for cultural representation in museum through his collection decisions and innovative installations. See the continuation... ]
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