Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art

Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art
Author: Daniel P. Biebuyck
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1973-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520024878

Learn about the four species of box turtles found in North America and gain interesting information about their habitats, feeding habits, and reproductive behavior.

African Art and the Colonial Encounter

African Art and the Colonial Encounter
Author: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2007-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253022657

Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.

The Anthropology of Art

The Anthropology of Art
Author: Howard Morphy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2009-02-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1405155329

This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.

African Art from the Menil Collection

African Art from the Menil Collection
Author: Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Publisher: Menil Foundation
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008
Genre: Art, African
ISBN:

Bamana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculpture, and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African artifacts found in the renowned Menil Collection. This stunning book--the first comprehensive catalogue on the de Menils' collection of African art--features 115 of the museum's finest pieces. Dating primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, these works come from North Africa and the Sahel, Coastal West Africa, and Central and East Africa. An essay by scholar Kristina Van Dyke discusses the formation of the collection, which was inspired in part by its relationship to modernist works and by the couple's interest in human rights. This insightful text also explains how the de Menils' visionary spirit was influenced by African art and places those objects within the context of the whole of the de Menils' collection, in which works from ancient, Byzantine, medieval, modern, Oceanic, and Native American cultures speak to the universal struggle for human understanding. Entries for the selected works were written by leading scholars in the field and are grouped into sections based on regions. Distributed for The Menil Collection

Ethnic and Tourist Arts

Ethnic and Tourist Arts
Author: Nelson H. H. Graburn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520038424

Chapter by N. Williams separately annotated.

The Vital Art of D.H. Lawrence

The Vital Art of D.H. Lawrence
Author: Jack Stewart
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780809321681

D. H. Lawrence, asserts Jack Stewart, expresses a painter's vision in words, supplementing visual images with verbal rhythms. With the help of twenty-three illustrations, Stewart shows how Lawrence's style relates to impressionism, expressionism, primitivism, and futurism. Stewart examines Lawrence's painterly vision in The White Peacock, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Kangaroo, and The Plumed Serpent. Stewart's final three chapters deal with the influence exerted on Lawrence's fiction by the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, and the Japanese artists Hokusai and Hiroshige. He concludes by synthesizing the themes that pervade this interarts study: vision and expression, art and ontology.

Primitivism in Modern Art

Primitivism in Modern Art
Author: Robert Goldwater
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780674704909

This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive artists attracted modern painters and sculptors, and he delineates the differences between what is truly primitive or archaic and what intentionally embodies such elements. His analysis distinguishes the romanticism of Gauguin; an emotional primitivism exemplified by the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups in Germany; the intellectual primitivism of Picasso and Modigliani; and a “primitivism of the subconscious” in Miró, Klee, and Dali. Two of Goldwater's related essays—“Judgments of Primitive Art, 1905–1965” and “Art History and Anthropology”—have been added for this new paperback edition.

Bámigbóyè

Bámigbóyè
Author: James Green
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300266553

The first publication on the Yorùbá master sculptor Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition is the first monograph dedicated to the 50-year career of the Nigerian artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè (ca. 1885–1975). One of the most important Yorùbá sculptors of the twentieth century, Bámigbóyè is best known for the spectacular masks that he carved for religious festivals known locally as Ẹpa. Weighing up to 80 pounds and measuring over 4 feet tall, with intricate superstructures that could feature dozens of finely carved individual figures, these masks represent some of the most complex and elaborate works of Yorùbá art ever made. With 190 illustrations, this sumptuous volume presents masterpieces from Bámigbóyè’s workshop now housed in collections in America, Europe, and Nigeria. Essays situate Bámigbóyè’s work as part of Africa’s oldest and most dynamic art traditions and consider his sculpture in relation to contemporary Yorùbá art, culture, politics, and religion. With new and archival photographs and incorporating oral histories conducted with the artist’s family and community, this catalogue fills a critical void in African art-historical scholarship. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Yale University Art Gallery (September 9, 2022–January 8, 2023)

Culture in Retrospect

Culture in Retrospect
Author: A. P. J. Roux
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

In the past African philosophy did not really form part of the phiosophical scene in South Africa. It had no place on the programmes of South African Philosophical Society and no articles on it were published in South African Journal of Philosophy.