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ROY D. Christopher

Kilengi: African Art from the Bareiss Family Collection

Détails sur le produit: Relié: 419 pages - Editeur: University of Washington Press (1 juin 1999) - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 0295978228 - ISBN-13: 978-0295978222 

From Library Journal: Kilengi is a Bantu term meaning "joy arising through beauty," a telling insight into the importance of art in Africa. This catalog in coffee-table format was produced to accompany a traveling exhibition of Walter Bareiss's African art collection, previously in Iowa City and now in Purchase, NY. The collection, although only recently assembled, is intriguing because of its high quality and because it focuses on East and South Africa, regions often overlooked. Roy's introduction incisively criticizes scholars' and collectors' overemphasis of West African art. His essay describing the major categories of objects represented in the collection is not innovative in approach but will be useful for the general reader. This book's greatest strength lies in both George Meister's exquisite photography, which highlights the visual power of the collected objects, and in Roy's extensively researched catalog entries. Overall, this is a visually stunning, very reasonably priced publication; highly recommended for any library with an interest in African art.AEugene C. Burt, Art Inst. of Seattle Lib., WA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information,

ROBERTS F. Allen

 

Animals in African Art: From the Familiar to the Marvelous

 

Détails sur le produit:

Relié: 192 pages - Editeur: Prestel (1995) - Collection: African, Asian & Oceanic Art - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 3791314556 - ISBN-13: 978-3791314556

 

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From the Familiar to the Marvelous. With a foreword by James Fernandez. New York: The Museum for African Art & Prestel, Munich 1995, 30.0 x 23.0cms, 192pp, colour illusts, very good+ paperback (exhibition catalogue) This book explores 125 Western & Central African representations of animals in various media and of exceptional aethetic quality. Roberts argues that they are useful metaphors for people's predicaments and mirror human

ROBBINS M. Warren - Robert H. Simmons et Richard Walters

African Sculpture

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Relié: 240 pages - Editeur: Schiffer Publishing (juillet 2007) - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 0764323326 - ISBN-13: 978-0764323324

Descrizione libro: 

A comprehensive introduction to the vast range of tribal sculpture from Africa is presented in this photographic survey. Ashanti fertility dolls, Bambara dance headpieces, Bachokwe staff heads, and Bakuba boxes are included in 347 works from Senegal to the Congo regions, Mali to Sierra Leone. This book provides a tremendous opportunity for Africans and non-Africans alike to view the diversity, expressive quality, and sheer evocative power of African art, and to gain a better understanding of one of the great heritages of mankind. Warren Robbins presents the pieces from the perspective of two civilizations -- Africa and the West. Believing that the works are classical rather than primitive art, his sensitive analysis of the stylistic refinements of the various tribes past and present emphasizes the importance of preserving this art for posterity. The text and captions are presented in both English and

RAGGHIANTI  L. Carlo

Critica d'arte africana: Musei d'arte africana   

 

(Introduzione di Ezio Bassani)

 

 

Descrizione libro: Edizioni Panini Modena - Anno 1°, seconda serie, fascicolo n°1 - Primavera 1984 - supplemento di "Critica d'Arte" - pagg. 94

 

Questo fascicolo sostanzialmente monografico riunisce i contributi di direttori e responsabili di settore dei maggiori Musei che conservano opere d'arte africana. 

Nell'introduzione Ezio Bassani, con approfondita disamina, dimostra l'inconsistenza del pregiudizio etnologico e rivendica ciò che ha dignità di opera

RAGGHIANTI  L. Carlo

Critica d'arte africana: Carl Einstein e l'arte africana

 

Descrizione libro: Edizioni Panini Modena - Anno 2°, seconda serie, fascicolo n°2 - Inverno 1985 - supplemento di "Critica d'Arte" - pagg. 88

 

Il numero monografico di "Critica d'Arte Africana" contiene la prima traduzione italiana di Negerplastik e la riproduzione di tutte le illustrazioni, nonché il capitolo introduttivo di Afrikanische Plastik. Contiene inoltre due saggi di Ezio Bassani, Gilda della Ragione e Giovanna Parodi da Passano che illuminano i diversi aspetti dell'opera di Einstein e chiariscono le ragioni della sua straordinaria importanza per gli studiosi di arte africana in particolare, ma anche per tutti coloro che si interessano ai problemi dell'arte

PRESTON-BLIER Suzanne

Art of the Senses: African Masterpieces from the William and Bertha Teel Collection

 

Détails sur le produit: Relié: 224 pages - Editeur: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston (janvier 2003) 

Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 0878466592 - ISBN-13: 978-0878466597

 

Book Description: How the "unique" look of African art captured the imagination of artists such as Picasso and Stieglitz is well known. But how do art aficionados today see African objects? And how does our view compare to the way in which these objects were seen in Africa? Presenting the William and Bertha Teel Collection for the first time, this book provides a chance to think about how our vision of such objects is shaped by the "ethnographic," "primitive," or "modern" labels that have been applied in the West, and to compare it to how those same works were viewed in their birthplace. Lavish, full-color illustrations of over 100 choice objects combine forces with essays by leading African art specialists Suzanne Preston Blier, Michael Kan, and Edmund B. Gaither, and object descriptions by the collector himself, to provide a thoughtful and visually stimulating examination of these important African forms--as well as of the dynamic relationship among their creators, their original cultural contexts, and the Western viewing public. Essays by Suzanne Preston Blier, Michael Kan and Edmund B.

PHILLIPS  Tom

 

AFRICA: The Art of a Continent

 

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Broché: 620 pages - Editeur: Prestel; Édition: illustrated edition (30 décembre 1999) 

Collection: African, Asian & Oceanic Art - Langue: Anglais 

(ISBN: 3791320041 / 3-7913-2004-1)

PHILLIPS  Tom  -  AFRICA: The Art of a Continent

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From Library Journal

Associated with an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, this book provides a survey of 100 visually spectacular objects from Africa. As befits current thinking, the catalog (and exhibition) surveys the entire continent, including ancient Egypt and Nubia and north and northwestern Africa as well as the sub-Saharan region. Each object is reproduced in color and accompanied by extensive catalog entries written by over 60 expert contributors. The catalog section is preceded by five essays contributed by major scholars in the field. The essays discuss the nature of African art and its appreciation. Gates's article on the ambivalence displayed by 20th-century Western appreciation and Suzanne Blier's essay on the myths and misconceptions surrounding African art are especially valuable contributions. Highly recommended for any library with an interest in African art.?Eugene C. Burt, Art Inst. of Seattle Lib.

 

Book Description

As the birthplace of the human race, Africa possesses a cultural history of

PETRIDIS Constantine

Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba - Songye - Chokwe - Luluwa

 

Détails sur le produit: Relié: 160 pages - Editeur: MercatorFonds (29 septembre 2008) 

Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 9061538300 - ISBN-13: 978-9061538301

 

Note Libraio 

Hardback with jacket, 120 illustrations, 100 in colour. Revealing the powers immanent in works that the West long regarded only as exotic or abstract, Constantine Petridis looks beneath the surface of the arts of the Luba, Songye, Chokwe and Luluwa peoples to find, literally embedded in sculpture, the forces that enable the spirit world to intervene in daily life. Ritual use of these objects is expected to ensure a healthy birth, successful hunt, or triumph over an enemy. Analysis of the scholarly record illuminates the changing visions of leadership and prestige that fostered the development of the majestic, elaborate figure styles long prized in the

PERROIS Louis & GRAND-DUFAY Charlotte

PUNU

 

Détails sur le produit: Broché: 160 pages - Editeur: Five Continents Editions (12 juin 2008) - Collection: Visions of Africa Series - Langue: Anglais - ISBN-10: 8874394012 - ISBN-13: 978-8874394012

 

Descrizione libro: I Punu, stanziati nella regione sud-occidentale del Gabon, fanno parte di un gruppo di popolazioni essenzialmente conosciute per le maschere bianche. Questi oggetti non hanno mai cessato di impressionare, dai collezionisti agli appassionati di arte africana, fino agli artisti occidentali dell'inizio del Novecento; Picasso, in particolare, ne possedeva una. Il volto ricoperto di argilla bianca, gli occhi leggermente a mandorla, la bocca dalle labbra rosse finemente contornate e l'acconciatura sofisticata composta di varie ciocche di capelli intrecciati, fanno parte delle caratteristiche stilistiche delle maschere. Gli autori studiano il contesto di uso rituale di questi importanti oggetti, che i Punu e le popolazioni loro collegate utilizzavano in occasione di danze chiamate, tra gli altri nomi, "mukuyi". Le maschere appartenevano al "bwiri", congregazione di soli uomini, e coloro che le portavano erano scelti esclusivamente tra gli iniziati. Costoro eseguivano danze acrobatiche su trampoli, il più delle volte in occasione di riti funerari e in onore degli antenati, incarnati dalle maschere. Questi ultimi assumevano, così, un ruolo di vigilanza allontanando le forze del male. Le danze esistono anche attualmente, ma in un contesto di festeggiamenti, senza rispettare più l'anonimato di chi le indossa. La ricerca delle tradizioni e delle loro correlazioni con il contesto della regione del Gabon meridionale, passa in rassegna altri oggetti, molto meno

PERROIS Louis

FANG

 

Détails sur le produit: Broché: 156 pages, cm 16,5x24 - ill. col e b/n - Editeur: Five Continents Editions, Milano; Édition: 1 (22 juin 2006) - Collection: Visions of Africa Series - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 8874392958 - ISBN-13: 978-8874392957

Descrizione libro

Fin dai tempi della "scoperta" delle arti africane a opera di Braque e Picasso l'arte dei Fang è considerata una delle più emblematiche tra le arti dell'Africa nera. Ma la subitanea celebrità di alcune effigi ha portato, paradossalmente, a misconoscere le molteplici fonti ed espressioni dell'immaginario fang. Il presente volume analizza finalmente tutti i manufatti a carattere sociale, rituale o simbolico. Statuette o semplici teste connesse al culto degli antenati, maschere da danza dei vari riti, insegne di potere, copricapo e ornamenti, armi, strumenti musicali ornati, utensili della vita di tutti i giorni testimoniano, con i loro diversi materiali, una creatività estetica straordinariamente diversificata, in armonia con il variopinto universo di credenze e

ORLANDONI Bruno

 

AFRICA IN FORME: Trasformazioni del corpo femminile nella scultura africana

 

Descrizione del prodotto:

Brossura - Pagg.288, Ill. Colore e b&n, dimensioni: 30 x 21 cm, Edizione: Associazione "Segnali per il futuro" O.N.L.U.S. - 2008 - Lingua: Italiana

 

Descrizione libro:

Catalogo della mostra "Africa in forme. Trasformazioni del corpo femminile nella scultura africana" - Asti - Battistero di San Pietro, Maggio-Agosto 2008 - Saggi di: Bruno Orlandoni (Curatore della mostra): Introduzione all'Arte Africana; Gian Luigi Nicola: Esposizione e conservazione dell'Arte Africana; Alberto Salza: Disproportions; Bruno Orlandoni e Alberto Salza: Schede delle popolazioni e delle

NOTUE' Jean-Paul et TRIACA Bianca

 

BABUNGO: Treasures Of The Sculptor Kings In Cameroon

 

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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

ROBBINS M. Warren  &  NOOTER Nancy Ingram

 

African Art in American Collections   (ISBN-10: 076432005X - ISBN-13: 978-0764320057)

 

Descrizione libro: Relié: 616 pages - Editeur: Schiffer Publishing Ltd; Édition: 2 (1 janvier 2004) Langue: Anglais. Hard Cover with dust jacket. 9x12 in. Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. African art -- with its powerful forms, complex symbolism, and formal inventiveness -- has only recently come to be recognized as one of the great artistic traditions of mankind. This rich tradition is showcased here in a remarkable selection of outstanding works. Nearly 1,600 objects are illustrated, each accompanied by scholarly information on style, usage, meaning, and cultural origin. Featured individually by section are the styles of Western Sudan, the West African Coastal Region, West Central Africa, Central Africa, and Eastern and Southern Africa. A thought-provoking introduction helps readers understand the significance of African art as a form of human creative expression, its relationships to contemporary Western art, and the controversies surrounding it in the world's museums. Newcomers to the field as well as professionals will find many questions answered in the text and captions. FThis comprehensive survey of some 230 styles of African art is an essential reference for scholars, teachers, students, curators, collectors, and

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

MONTI Franco

Le Maschere Africane

 

 

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Rilegato, pagine 158,

illustrazioni a colori - Lingua: Italiano

Fratelli Fabbri Editori - Milano - 1966

Collana "Elite" - Le arti e gli stili in ogni tempo e

MEYER Laure

Black Africa: Masks, sculpture, jewelry

Détails sur le produit: Broché: 224 pages - Editeur: Editions Pierre Terrail (1992) - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 287939032X - ISBN-13: 978-2879390321

Descriptions du produit:The Northern Hemisphere has long looked at the art of the Southern Hemisphere and equatorial regions as a collection of curios or travel trophies illustrating the essentially barbarous nature of its creators. Slowly such views are changing as more effort is put to understanding the individual works of art and their context in the societies that produced them. Art historian Meyer has attempted to integrate over 200 color photos together with a general text giving an overview of the role of the arts in various African cultures. Although her choppy text (translated from the French) will provide a basis for interested readers to start research, the bibliography is dated and leads mostly to French sources. Rather than present an overview, Newton, the former director of New York's Museum of Primitive Art, has produced a catalog of suberb photographs with scholarly explanatory captions. The objects, mostly of wood, are drawn from Geneva's Barbier-Mueller Museum, considered one of the best collections in the world. Photographed with great depth of field and subtle lighting designed to accentuate texture, the sculptures are brought to life by a fine-grain printing process. Meyer uses some photos that also appear in Newton's book, but the two works complement each other rather than overlap. The Newton book is the better choice for general collections, but the differences in explaining societal context and the different scope of coverage warrant placement of both books in comprehensive collections. David McClelland, Temple Univ. Lib., Philadelphia Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une

MEYER Laure

Art and craft in Africa: Everyday life, ritual, court art

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Broché: 207 pages - Editeur: Terrail, first English edition, 1995. - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 2879390982 - ISBN-13: 978-2879390987

Descriptions du produit:

Most museum exhibitions and books on African art focus on masks and figurative sculptures, largely ignoring many types of objects common in African cultures that "demonstrate an aesthetic sensibility all the more remarkable for serving the humblest of purposes." In this volume, Meyer offers a splendidly illustrated survey of everyday, primarily utilitarian objects furnishings, culinary utensils, textiles, jewelry, weapons, musical instruments, games, pipes, regalia, that reveal undeniable beauty of design, ornamentation, or display. Less detailed and scholarly than Roy Sieber's catalog African Furniture and Household Objects (Indiana Univ. Pr., 1980), Meyer's work nevertheless offers concise introductions to scores of categories of objects that are both essential to, and revealing of, the nature of African life. Highly recommended for public library collections of African studies or art. Dr. Eugene C. Burt, Art Inst. of Seattle

MEURANT Georges, THOMPSON Robert Farris

Mbuti Design: Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest

 

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Relié: 224 pages - Editeur: Thames & Hudson Inc - 1996 - Langue: Anglais 

ISBN-10: 0500974306 - ISBN-13: 978-0500974308

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Thames & Hudson Inc, 1996. Hardcover. 300 x 245 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. The Mbuti people, who live in the Ituri rainforest of northeastern Zaire, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer cultures in the world. Since 3500 BC they have been famed for their rich arts of music and dancing, but until recently the barkcloth drawings and paintings originally made by the women as loincloths for ceremonies and dances have been virtually unknown in the west. The qualities of these drawings and their reflection of the Mbuti people's way of life, are explored and illustrated in this volume. The drawings are closely analyzed, examined both thematically and aesthetically, and the wider influence of African forager art forms on contemporary world art is

MATTHAES Gottfried

 

BELLEZZA E AUTENTICITA' NELL'ARTE AFRICANA

 

Editore: MUSEO COLLEZIONISTA D'ART- Museo d'Arte e Scienza - Milano

 

Formato: Libro rilegato - Pubblicazione: 01/2008 - Numero di pagine: 384

ISBN: 8890118121 - ISBN-13: