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African Arts articles from December 2007
A quarterly journal devoted to the contemporary and traditional arts of Africa. Includes sculpture in wood, metal, ceramic, ivory, and stone, as well as work in fiber, hide, mud, and other materials. Covers architecture, arts of personal adornment, contem
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African Arts archives from December 2007
African art, African museums.(first word)
December 22, 2007... Museum Island in Berlin is famous for the bust of Nefertiti (collected from Egypt), the Pergamon altar (dated 160 BCE, from Asia Minor), the second century BCE market gate (also taken from Asia Minor, and rebuilt in the museum), as well as...
Gregory A. Cherry: 1940-2007.(in memoriam)(Obituary)
December 22, 2007... Greg Cherry was five months into what was expected to be a long and contented retirement when his heart decided otherwise. The news of his death was stunning: I'd simply forgotten about his chronic heart condition. Greg, you see, was always so...
Timothy Francis Garrard: April 28, 1943-May 17, 2007.(in memoriam)(Obituary)
December 22, 2007... Before Timothy Garrard became one of the leading historians of the gold trade in West Africa and the metal arts of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, he was, to the surprise of many who only knew him in his Africanist guise, a lawyer. Tim started life in...
Decorated Hu Ronko shirts from Northern Sierra Leone: birth, life, and decline.(Essay)
December 22, 2007... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED]
A form of decorated men's shirt in Sierra Leone raises issues not only of its own provenience, but of its relationships to similar West African dress. I first discuss the history of its local origin, then describe in...
Eternal Ancestors: the Art of the Central African Reliquary.(exhibition preview)
December 22, 2007... Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York October 1, 2007-March 2, 2008
The catalogue Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary is published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press.
What inspired the...
A masterwork that sheds tears ... and light: a complementary study of a Fang ancestral head.(Essay)
December 22, 2007... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED]
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Fang ancestral sculpture of Equatorial Africa figured among the most emblematic and esteemed genres of African art. These anthropomorphic effigies, with an often haphazardly...
The "Bwa war masks" of the middle Uele region: a review.(Essay)
December 22, 2007... This paper is not the result of field experience on my part with masked warriors, or even with the descendants of masked warriors. I have merely brought a fresh eye to documentary evidence, more specifically to written sources, some of them...
Benin--Kings and Rituals: court arts from Nigeria.(exhibition preview)
December 22, 2007... Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna May 8-September 3, 2007
Musee du quai Branly, Paris October 2, 2007-January 6, 2008
Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin February 7-May 25, 2008
Art Institute of Chicago July 2-September 21, 2008
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AfricaComics.
December 22, 2007... AfricaComics November 15, 2006-March 18, 2007 Studio Museum, Harlem, NYC
In 1950 the Paris-based cultural association Presence Africaine commissioned the young French filmmakers Chris Marker and Alain Resnais to do a documentary on African...
Last Grave at Dimbaza.(Movie review)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Last Grave at Dimbaza 55 minutes/color Morena Films, 1974; Closed captioned release date 2006. DVD/VHS distributed/sold by First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY. Sale: $390, rental $100
The images remain in your...
Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion by David H. Brown Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xx + 413 pp., 27 color, 108 b/w illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography,...