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|escaper|escapen|escapetAfrican Art on the Internet |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapet |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapet |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapet |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapet15th Triennial Symposium on African Art, Arts Council of the African Studies Association, 2011, Wednesday, March 23 - Saturday, March 26, 2011, UCLA, Los Angeles, California |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapethttps://www.acasaonline.org/conf_next.htm |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapetAddis Art - Ethiopian Art and Artists Page |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapetContemporary 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] https://www.addisart.com/ |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapetAddis Art - Nouveau Art from Ethiopia |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapetArtists include Shiferaw Girma and Lulseged Retta. Photographs of each artist's work, a biography, and video. Founded by Mesai Haileleul. [KF] https://www.addis-art.com/ |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapetAdire African Textiles - Duncan Clarke |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapetHistory, 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. https://www.adireafricantextiles.com/ |escaper|escapen |escaper|escapen|escapetAfewerk
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NOTUE' Jean-Paul et TRIACA Bianca
MANKON: Arts Heritage And Culture From The Mankon Kingdom - Catalogue of the Mankon Museum
Détails sur le produit: Broché: 255 pages, 46 color and 217 black & white photographs. Editeur: Five Continents Editions; Édition: illustrated edition (1 janvier 2005) - Langue: Anglais
ISBN-10: 8874392001 - ISBN-13: 978-8874392001
Descrizione libro: It is in a plural perspective, an association of history, ethnography, stylistic analysis and aesthetics, that this work presents the artistic and cultural production of the small kingdom of Mankon on the high plateaux of western Cameroon: these objects, linked with rituals, of prestige or more ordinary ones are all charged with meaning, but also with identified characteristic shapes, all bearing the memory of the treasures of kings, notables and secret societies. This production of the arts plays a fundamental role in cultural continuity, protects evidence of the past and preserves objects used in rites for the well-being of society. This is why they form an essential part of the artistic and cultural heritage of the whole of Mankon. They are extraordinarily rich, both regarding the quality of the objects, by the diversity of domains they approach and by the variety of decorative patterns (men, animals, geometric and plant shapes etc.), styles and
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NOTUE' Jean-Paul et TRIACA Bianca
BABUNGO: Treasures Of The Sculptor Kings In Cameroon
Détails sur le produit:
Broché: 224 pages - 48 col. ill., 90 b/w ill., cm 17x24 - Editeur: Five Continents Editions; Édition: illustrated edition (1 janvier 2006) - Langue : Anglais - ISBN-10: 887439201X - ISBN-13: 978-8874392018
Descrizione libro: Il libro presenta più di un centinaio di oggetti del patrimonio culturale e artistico di Bandjoun, uno dei principali centri di creazione e tradizione artistica della Grassland camerunense, la cui fama per quanto riguarda l'estetica e l'arte africana è nota. I visitatori di Bandjoun rimangono impressionati dalle danze, le cerimonie e i panorami, gli elementi architettonici riccamente ornati, gli splendidi troni reali, le magnifiche maschere e gli oggetti di perle, le stoffe dagli enigmatici motivi ornamentali e i vari oggetti cultuali che sono spesso espressione del ciclo vitale. Le opere di questi artisti di talento sono, da un lato, la celebrazione dei fasti della corte reale di Bandjoun, della magnificenza e del potere dei suoi monarchi e dei loro collaboratori, e della solidità delle istituzioni, e, dall'altro, la traduzione formale di temi universali come la morte, la vita, la sconfitta, l'amore, la vittoria, il potere, il prestigio, la forza occulta, ecc. In molti casi sono opere di eccelsa qualità esecutiva, di indiscutibile autenticità, e di grande valore storico-sociale. Tra i pezzi esposti sono presenti alcuni dei capolavori dell'arte africana. Qui la creazione artistica fa leva su una creazione vitale e
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MULLEN-KREAMER Christine, FREYER Bryna et NICOLLS Andrea
African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection
Détails sur le produit: Relié: 235 pages - Editeur: Prestel; Édition : illustrated edition (30 mars 2007) - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 3791338021 - ISBN-13: 978-3791338026
Descriptions du produit: Ninety renowned masterpieces of African art that inspired artists at the Walt Disney studios. In 2005, the Walt Disney Company donated its Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Considered one of the world's finest collections of African art, the Disney-Tishman Collection contains iconic pieces dating from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries and showcases art that represents seventy-five peoples and twenty countries. This book explores the many ways that the collection reflects Africa's rich history and culture and focuses particularly on objects used in performance, rituals, and as emblems of power. Figures carved in stone, wood, and ivory; stools, masks, crowns, jewelry, and hunting tools--each object is presented in vivid color plates and accompanied by texts providing information about the objects' history, uses, and materials. This beautiful book accompanies the first public presentation of the collection in the past twenty years, permitting a new generation to experience one of America's national treasures.
About the author: Christine Mullen Kreamer is Curator at the National Museum of African Art. Bryna Freyer is Curator for Collections at the National Museum of African Art. Andrea Nicolls is curatorial liaison for loan at the National Museum of African Art. Martin Sklar is Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans
Il est né le 3 novembre 1903, à Saint-Louis, Missouri. Il étudie au Williams College en 1922-1923 et à la Sorbonne en 1926. Evans débute la photographie en 1930. Il obtient une bourse de la Fondation John-Simon-Guggenheim en 1940, 1941 et 1959. Il entre au magazine Time en 1945 et à Fortune en 1965. Cette même année, il devient professeur de photographie à l'école d'art de l'Université Yale. Il est mort le 10 avril 1975, à New Haven, Connecticut.
On connaît notamment son travail sur la Grande dépression, participant au programme de la Farm Security Administration. Les images de métayers dans l'Alabama, au même titre que celles de Dorothea Lange, comptent parmi les icônes du monde moderne.
On remarque dans son travail les regards des sujets fixant l'objectif de Walker Evans : ici pas de doute le sujet se sait photographié, pour autant il ne se compose pas un visage de circonstance orné d'un sourire obligatoire. Ici la photographie ne se contente pas de montrer, elle interroge le spectateur, l'américain des années 1930 : si le sujet se laisse photographier dans cette posture, c'est que son regard a quelque chose à nous dire. Ce n'est peut-être plus nous qui le regardons mais lui qui nous accuse.
Cette franchise du photographe préserve une dignité humaine mise à mal par la misère qui se laisse voir dans les vêtements en loques.
Cet aspect de ses photos est
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Sotheby's
Création 1744
Siège social New York (États-Unis)
Activité(s) Vente aux enchères d’œuvres d’art
Site Web www.sothebys.com
Sotheby’s est une société internationale de vente aux enchères d’œuvres d’art, la plus ancienne au monde et la seule à être cotée à la bourse de New York. Elle organise 350 ventes par an, à Paris, New York, Londres, Hong Kong, Genève et Milan notamment et compte 400 spécialistes en art.
Histoire
Sotheby's à Londres, New Bond Street
Siège de Sotheby's à New YorkEn 1744, Samuel Baker fonde la première société de vente aux enchères au monde, spécialisée dans les livres et manuscrits. Elle se développe rapidement et organise la vente des grandes bibliothèques, dont celle de Napoléon Bonaparte. Deux siècles plus tard, Sotheby's étend son domaine de compétences aux estampes, médailles et monnaies et s’installe sur New Bond Street à Londres. Le chiffre d'affaires des œuvres d'art dépasse alors significativement celui des livres.
À la fin des années 1950, la société connaît une phase de forte croissance, sous la direction de Peter Wilson. Sotheby’s joue un rôle actif dans le regain d’intérêt
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Africa, Oceania and the Indigenous Americas | | The Department oversees four separate collection segments: the arts of
Africa, Egypt, the South Pacific and the Indigenous Americas.
Reflecting current scholarship and geography, Egyptian art is now a
sub-section of this department. African art thus consists of works from
the rest of Africa other than Egypt.
 African ArtThe
DIA’s African art collection ranks among the finest in the United
States. It comprises some rare world-class works from nearly one
hundred African cultures, predominantly from regions south of the
Sahara desert. A diverse collection, ranging from sculpture to textiles
to exquisite utilitarian wares, religious paraphernalia and bodily
ornaments, it is heavily weighted toward the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. African art collecting is
inextricably tied to the founding of the Detroit Institute of Arts at
the turn of 20th century and remains one of the institution’s important
hallmarks. From the late 1800s through the 1930s, generous
contributions from some of Detroit’s first collectors, such as
Frederick Stearns and Robert Tannahill, helped to develop the core
collection. This included priceless works, such as several Benin royal
brass sculptures, an exquisite 16th century Kongo Afro-Portuguese ivory
knife container, a 17th century Owo ivory bracelet, a Kongo steatite
funerary figure (ntadi) and a finely crafted Asante royal gold
soul-washer’s badge recovered from the chamber of the nineteenth
century Asante King, Kofi Karikari. Support from the City of Detroit
has since aided the purchase of additional works of |
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Treasures marks the National Museum of African Art's 25th anniversary as a Smithsonian museum. The first in a new exhibition series, Treasuresis an old-fashioned show about African art, reminiscent of the
exhibitions that represented avant-garde opinions of the early 20th
century. In 1926, Paul Guillaume, Parisian connoisseur and collector,
cautioned readers to defer learning about the history and meaning of
African art until they had studied African art purely as an art form,
because to do otherwise "tends to obscure one's vision of the objects
as sculpture."I chose the familiar--traditional sculpture--to reveal aesthetic variances, to see African art as form, not function. Treasures,
therefore, is about visual exploration and aesthetic discovery. Our
understanding of African art is prescribed by what we see, and often,
what we see is based on works displayed in museums. So, "Treasures" is
just that--a sampling that gives us a peek into the realm of African
art.  Westerners
and Africans alike revere well-made form. Each admires skillful
technique and execution, exquisitely rendered forms, pattern, balance,
symmetry, surface treatments and a sense of completeness. African
artists, however, strive to portray more than that. As metaphor or
symbol, their artworks embody the world of ideas and
beliefs--confirming their notions about themselves, life and death, the
universe and the spiritual realm. Yet, despite our cultural
presumptions that separate art from life, often separating aesthetics
from meaning, and our ignorance of or indifference to what it means and
how it is used, African art astonishes. An eclectic display of sculptures from East, West, Central, and southern Africa created between the 15th
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