African Arts articles from December 2005

African Arts archives from December 2005

New directions in African Art(s).(first word)(Editorial)
December 22, 2005... Is a journal a destination, or is it a point of departure? Does it reflect a discipline, or does it shape it? Should a journal's editors select its contents in order to fashion a particular identity, or should the articles submitted to the...

Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Personal Affects Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art by David Brodie, Laurie Ann Farrell, Churchill Madikida, Tracy Murinik, and Liese van der Watt New York: Museum of African Art and the Church of St. John the Divine,...

The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries edited by Manuel Joao Ramos and Isabel Boavida Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. 181 pp., 16 color plates, 53...

Fr. Francois Bontinck: 1920-2005.(Obituary)
December 22, 2005... "En Afrique, chaque vieillard qui meurt est un bibliotheque qui brule." In Africa, each elder who dies is a library going up in flames. This saying of the world-famous Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba is, in my opinion, applicable to Father...

Whither African Art? Emerging Scholarship at the end of an age.(Emerging Scholarship in African Art)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... In their abundance, diversity, and complexity, the classical arts of Africa remain as rich and inexhaustible a subject for study as Roman art or Shakespeare. Yet scholarship in the traditional arts of Africa seems--if anything--quite exhausted....

The Merina landscape in early nineteenth century highlands Madagascar.(Emerging Scholarship in African Art)
December 22, 2005... The ways in which political life and authority are created, maintained, or imagined through landscape are curiously undeveloped in scholarship surrounding the arts of Africa. This paper focuses on the some of the key roles that landscape played...

Symptoms and strangeness in Yoruba anti-aesthetics.(Emerging Scholarship in African Art)
December 22, 2005... Bi oju ko ba rohun bi okun Oju o le rohun bi i ide (If the eyes have not seen a thing like rope, The eyes cannot see a thing like bronze.) --Chief Agbongbon Inaolaji of Ilora (September 3, 1998) Receiving, giving, giving, receiving,...

Layers of awareness: intermediality and practices of visual arts in northern Cote d'Ivoire.(Emerging Scholarship In African Art)
December 22, 2005... Given the central role the electronic media play in contemporary and in particular in urban Africa, it should come as no surprise that the so-called traditional arts can no longer occupy the same aesthetic position they did before the advent of...

Challenges to rural festivals with the return to democratic rule in southeastern Nigeria.(Emerging Scholarship In African Art)
December 22, 2005... The last fifteen years have seen a major shift in the study of African art. Beginning as a discipline largely devoted to' the study of rural art forms in their religious and social contexts, it is now mainly focused on urban artists working as...

Masques Dogons in a changing world.(Emerging Scholarship in African Art)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... At a lecture I gave in 1998, the image of contemporary Dogon masquerade (Fig. 2) incited shock amongst my audience. In place of the timeless image captured by Huet in the 1970s of a line of mask dancers suspended in space (Fig. 1), the...

Redefining twentieth century African art; the view from the Lagoons of Cote d'Ivoire.(Emerging Scholarship In African Art)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... Art historians who organize exhibitions are constructing a framework for viewers to respond to art works. Obviously, the framework is physical, made of painted walls and display cases, lighting systems and printed captions. However, the...

The historical life of objects: African art history and the problem of discursive obsolescence.(Emerging Scholarship in African Art)
December 22, 2005... This essay evaluates how the field of African art history deals with the problem of cultural and discursive changes deriving from its canonization of specific objects of African art by interrogating the Mbari architecture of the Owerri-Igbo, a...

Notes on African art, history and diasporas within.(Emerging Scholarship in African Art)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... What is African time? Or perhaps we should ask instead, "What time is Africa's?" Is it now? Has it passed? Where, and when, is African art history? In his 1984 book Art History in Africa, the venerable historian of Central Africa, Jan...

African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection.
December 22, 2005... African Art Now Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston January 29-June 5, 2005 Double Consciousness Black Conceptual Art since 1970 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston January 22-April 15, 2005 In the...

Island Thresholds: Contemporary Art from the Caribbean.
December 22, 2005... Island Thresholds Contemporary Art from the Caribbean The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts February 19-June 5, 2005 The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), founded in 1799 in Salem, Massachusetts, is one of America's oldest museums. Since...

Karmen Gei.(Movie review)
December 22, 2005... Karmen Gei Written and directed by Joseph Gai Ramaka, produced by Richard Sadler 82 minutes, color 2001, Senegal In French and Wolof with English subtitles VHS distributed by California Newsreel and DVD distributed by Kino International ...

Current events.(Calendar)
December 22, 2005... Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) iCarnaval! November 6, 2005-April 23, 2006 Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA Los Angeles, CA Cultural Encounters Fowler Collections in...