Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 414 p. The Yoruba was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yoruba has been judged primarily according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In this book, which merges the methods of art...
Rizzoli, 1999. — 182 p. African Elegance captures the essence gf traditional style as it is reflected in the arts and crafts of the continent. From elaborate beaded jewelry to beautifully carved wooden vessels, author Ettagale Blauer provides a superb visual record of the ways in which African people continue to make powerful statements about their cultures, their values, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 595 p. In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk, and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history, and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early...
Yale University Press & IIS, 2007. — 264 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-13542-8 This is the first book-length study of the art and architecture of the Fatimids, the Ismaili Shi'i dynasty that ruled in North Africa and Egypt from 909 to 1171. The Fatimids are most famous for founding the city of al-Qahira (Cairo) in 969, and their art―particularly textiles and luster ceramics, but also...
Prestel, 1994. — 204 S. "Afrikanische Sitze" gibt erstmals einen Uberblick iiber einen in der europaischen Rezeption lange vernachlassigten Bereich der afrikanischen Alltagskultur. Eine breite Formenvielfalt afrikanischer Sitzmobel tut sich vor uns auf. Sie reicht von einfachen, aus einem einzigen Holzblock gehauenen Sitzen bis hin zu komplex zusammengesetzten Stiihlen und...
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2007. — 216 c.
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В книге представлено богатое и разнообразнейшее по своей художественной выразительности наследие африканского искусства. На страницах книги можно ознакомиться с 40 традиционными работами африканского континента, находящимися в коллекции музея «Metropolitan».
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New York: The Metropolitan museum of art, 2006. — 217 p. The rich and diverse artistic heritage of sub-Saharan Africa is presented in forty traditional works in the Metropolitan's collection. Included are a brief introduction and history of the continent, an explanation of the role of visual expression in Africa, descriptions of the form and function of the works, lesson plans,...
University of California Museum of Art/Museum of Cultural History, 1984. — 258 p. Published in conjunction with the 27th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Exhibition presented 1984-1986 at five locations: UCLA, Center for African Art in NY, National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Seattle Art Museum.
Rizzoli, 1990. — 212 p. Photojournalist Courtney-Clarke, whose book Ndebele captured the painted wall art of South Africa, brings the same inquiring spirit to this depiction of her three-year trek from Nigeria to Senegal. Surviving sandstorms, locusts and malaria, she documents the bold geometric and symbolic wall paintings made by women in remote West African villages. These...
Parkstone Press International, 2020. — 256 p. African Art invites you to explore the dynamic origins of the vast artistic expressions arising from the exotic and mystifying African continent. Since its rediscovery through the colonial exhibitions at the end of the 19th century, African art has been an unlimited source of inspiration for artists who, over time, have perpetually...
Taschen, 2010. — 100 p. Une présentation d'objets d'art qui proviennent du Mali, de la République démocratique du Congo et d'une douzaine d'autres pays comme Madagascar et l'Afrique du Sud. With examples from every region of the continent, "Handmade in Africa" demonstrates the wide variety of African art. The splendid art of the African peoples occupies an unusual place in the...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. — 32 p. This publication details a 1984 special exhibition of African ivories drawn from outside institutions and meant to augment the understanding of the permanent collection of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition is an assemblage of more than...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988. — 116 p. — ISBN: 00810918749. The sculpture of the Dogon people of Mali constitutes one of the richest artistic traditions of West Africa and is a highlight of the Metropolitan Museum's permanent collection of African art. This handsome book features sixty-three of the finest pieces of Dogon art collected by Lester Wunderman, several of which...
New York: The Metropolitan museum of art, 1992. — 346 p. Foreword Philippe de Montebello Klaus G. Perls Maps Benin Altars Heads of Kings Queen Mother Heads Terracotta Heads Royal Altar Tusks Figures Altar Tableaus Roosters Rattle-Staffs Bells Altar Rings Altars to the Hand Palace Plaques Palace Plaques Court and Ceremonial Objects Pectorals, Hip Ornaments, and Waist Pendants...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 216 р. — (Oxford History of Art). — ISBN: 978-0192842619. This new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West...
Facts On File Publications, 1984. — 418 p. It is only within the last 100 years that scholars have begun to piece togetherthe history ofthe manypeoples and civilizations which make up the continent of Africa. This has been done by a combined study of the limited archeological data available, the relatively small amount ofwritten evidence and the hitherto mistrusted but valuable...
Routledge, 2020. — 246 p. The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detailed analysis of a corpus of nearly 850 bronze plaques...
UNKNO, 1996. — 245 p. The artistic and religious traditions of Africa constitute a primary expression of the intellectual and cultural vitality of this vast and fascinating continent. Art plays a vital role - especially when oral traditions dominate - in expressing and communicating ideas about the relationships between the human, spiritual and natural worlds. However, despite...
Yale University Press, 1993. — 281 p. The art of highland Christian Ethiopia - with its icon paintings on wood, metal processional crosses, gold coins, and manuscripts - is largely unknown in the West. This book presents a survey of this art from the 4th to the 18th centuries, and addresses the function of art within Ethiopian society.
Thames & Hudson, 2020. — 303 p. — (World of Art). Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures from which older, pre- colonial...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. — 74 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-14962-3. Textiles are a major form of aesthetic expression across Africa, and this book examines long-standing traditions together with recent creative developments. A variety of fine and venerable West African cloths are presented and discussed in terms of both artistry and technique. Wrapped around the body,...
With an essay by John Pemberton III. — New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. — 80 p. — ISBN: 0870999338. "Concise, well written, thoroughly documented, and easy to read... refreshingly light and portable. While chock full of information and excellent color photographs printed on good-quality paper, it is not so heavy that a small wagon is required to cart it home. The...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. — 314 p. Over the centuries, artists across sub-Saharan Africa have memorialized eminent figures in their societies using an astonishingly diverse repertoire of naturalistic and abstract sculptural idioms. Adopting complex aesthetic formulations, they idealized their subjects but also added specific details—such as emblems of rank,...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020. — 304 p. This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the western Sahel, a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. This is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the diverse cultural...
Berkeley—Los Angeles—London: University of California Press, 1973. — 290 p. (with illustr.) Лод Жан. Искусство Чёрной Африки (на англ. яз.) Africa Lost and Regained. Historical Background. The Black Artist. Art and Society. Masks. Statuary. From Myth to History. Comparative Survey of World History and Art.
Montréal, Québec: Université du Québec à Montréal, Mai 2009. — 149 p. Лёрё М.-Э. Негритюд и эстетика Леопольда Седара Сенгора в произведениях Дакарской школы (на франц. яз.) Table des matières: L'émergence de nouveaux arts plastiques. L'esthétique de Senghor et l'École de Dakar. Analyse formelle des oeuvres de l'École de Dakar: Interprétations et résultats. Appendices....
Harry N. Abrams, 1996. — 192 p. The pages of this volume reflect an explosion of African art that goes beyond ethnic or regional lines, and presents contemporary African art as it has never before been seen. The book moves from those artists most closely aligned with ancestral, tribal forms to those for whom the ties to tradition have been loosened considerably.
Édisud/Eddif, 2005. — 203 p. Une approche de l'art berbère enfin appréhendé dans son environnement propre. L'accent est mis sur la demeure de terre crue, les façades, les entrées, les intérieurs et les ustensiles du quotidien – les objets artistiques étant interrogés au travers de la parole des artisans. Avec la description des alvéoles et arcatures, des plafonds à clayonnages...
Routledge, 2022. — 242 p. This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek’s research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and Benin. Both the necessary ores and casting skills were widely available, contrary to previous scholarly...
C.H. Beck, 2022. — 129 S. Dieser Band bietet einen prägnanten Überblick über die historischen Kunstentwicklungen Afrikas, die ästhetischen Konventionen, künstlerischen Praktiken und Genres. Konzise und anschaulich informiert Kerstin Pinther über Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Werkstätten, Objektgebrauch, Aufführungspraxis sowie die Bedeutung der Künste im höfischen Kontext.
Madrid-Paris: Universidad Complutense—Sorbonne, juin-juillet 2016. — 76 p. Прието Саура К. Сюрреализм и Негритюд — От Бретона до Сенгора и Лорки (на франц. яз.) Table des matières: Contextualisation historique du rapport entre le surréalisme et la Négritude. Principes de la révolution poétique surréaliste. Surréalisme chez Léopold Sédar Senghor et Federico García Lorca: analyse...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 276 р. — ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 79301- 6 This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically shifting answers to this question, Peter Probst identifies “African art” as a conceptual...
Wiley Blackwell, 2011. — 650 p. Modernity has taken many forms. It may be understood as the emergence – after centuries of global commerce – of cosmopolitan outlooks adopted by local cultures negotiating with one another across vast geographic distances, and across gulfs of profoundly incompatible cultural conceptions. Exchange of material culture has been accompanied by trade...
McFarland and Co., 2015. — 172 p. The art of sub-Saharan Africa reveals the marvelous achievements of unknown artists over thousands of years. Their aesthetic ideal finds form in wood, ivory, fabric, bronze and iron. This illustrated study of traditional African art includes pieces from Western Sudan, the Congolese Basin, the Guinea coast, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo...
McFarland and Co., 2015. — 172 p. The art of sub-Saharan Africa reveals the marvelous achievements of unknown artists over thousands of years. Their aesthetic ideal finds form in wood, ivory, fabric, bronze and iron. This illustrated study of traditional African art includes pieces from Western Sudan, the Congolese Basin, the Guinea coast, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 250 p. The revolutions that began to sweep across countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 – like other revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts – have often been articulated, internally and externally, in black and white terms of success or failure, liberation or constraint, for or against, friend or enemy....
Laurence King Publishing, 2008. — 340 p. The mission of this book is to illustrate Africa's immensely fertile artistic landscape. Africa has emerged from its colonial past and is asserting its own identity. African art is not only confined to the continent itself, but has spread world-wide through the work of those descended from the enforced migrations of the slave trade and...
DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. — 305 S. Tunesien gehört seit je zu den beliebtesten Urlaubsgebieten. Der Erholungssuchende findet einen strahlend blauen Himmel und weite Sandbuchten, dazu den Zauber orientalischen Lebens und die Faszination der Wüste mit ihren Palmen-Oasen und Salzseen. Wer dieses Land und seine Menschen näher kennen und verstehen lernen will, sieht sich mit den...
Text by Ekpo Eyo and Frank Willett. — New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. — xiii, 161 p. — ISBN: 0-394-50975-7. The magnificent art that is the heritage of Nigeria was, for the first time, presented to the world beyond Nigeria at the "Treasures of Ancient Nigeria - Legacy of Two Thousand Years" exhibit at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the California Palace of the...
Longman Group, 1984. — 252 p. 'African art' is the label usually given to the visual and plastic arts of the peoples south of the Sahara, especially those of western and central Africa. Not only have students of African art limited themselves to a portion of the continent but they have been primarily concerned with the aesthetic appeal of sculpture and a description of the uses...
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. — 544 p. — ISBN: 0-8109-3448-5. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written for the general reader, this is the first comprehensive book to present the arts of Africa in art-historical terms. The authors treat individual pieces as tangible manifestations of changing beliefs and customs, as products of complex cultural interactions, as...
NY: The Metropolitan museum of art, 2000. — 116 p. Director's Foreword Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935 The Exhibition of African Art The Traveling Exhibition of Sculptures The Portfolio of Photographs by Walker Evans The Traveling Exhibition of Photographs Perfect Documents Notes Plates Archival Sources Appendix 1: List of Venues and Dates for the...
Third Edition. — Thames and Hudson, 2003. — (World of Art). — ISBN: 0-500-20364-4. Frank Willett's classic study reveals the astonishing variety and expressive power of the art of a continent that contains more distinct peoples and cultures than any other. This new edition has been updated throughout, incorporating the latest discoveries and additional illustrations, plus an...
Dover Publications, 1971. — 258 p. Linocut prints in stark blacks and whites of work from Zulu, Masai, and dozens of other tribes. Masks, abstract motifs, etc.
Addis-Ababa: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2012. — 136 p. Вольде Гиоргис Э. (ред.) Что такое "Земенавинет"? - Перспективы эфиопского модернизма (на англ. яз.) Andreas Eshete: Modernity: Its Title to Uniqueness and its Advent in Ethiopia. Bahru Zewde: Evolution of Professional Historiography in Ethiopia. Baye Yimam: Modernity, Language and Identity. Elias Yitbarek: Reflections on...
Cornell Univeristy, 2010. — 306 p. Вольде Гиоргис Э. Эфиопский модернизм: взгляд снизу (на англ. яз.) Earlier Articulations of Modernity. Modernist Spirits: The Images of Skunder Boghossian. Between the Visual and the Text. The Allegory of ‘Kitsch’: Artistic Production in Ethiopia (1974-1991). Contemporary Ethiopian Art. Appendix.
Петроград: Наркомпрос, 1919. — 162 с. Отечественные художники не слишком избалованы возможностями знакомиться со многими приемами творчества — то, что до сих пор им доступно из области искусств примитивных народов, очень незначительно. Обыкновенно историки искусства лишь слегка касаются тех областей, которые по установившемуся обычаю входят в круг ведения археологов и этнографов....
Петроград: Наркомпрос, 1919. — 162 с.
Отечественные художники не слишком избалованы возможностями знакомиться со многими приемами творчества — то, что до сих пор им доступно из области искусств примитивных народов, очень незначительно. Обыкновенно историки искусства лишь слегка касаются тех областей, которые по установившемуся обычаю входят в круг ведения археологов и...
Москва : Ключ-С, 2015. — 72 с. : ил. — ISBN 978-5-906751-35-5. В ваших руках – редкая в России книга о произведениях неизвестных культур, обнаруженных учеными в пустыне Сахара, раскинувшейся на многие тысячи квадратных километров от Атлантики до Нила. Наскальная живопись и петроглифы этого региона объявлены Организацией Объединенных Наций по вопросам образования, науки и...
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