African Arts articles from June 2004

African Arts archives from June 2004

ACASA, March 31, 2004.(first word)(Arts Council of African Studies Association)
June 22, 2004... When Suzanne Blier first asked me to address the Arts Council of African Studies Association at the 2004 Triennial in Boston, I right away said yes, because it is a very great honor. I was at the 1995 Triennial in New York City and...

Jak Katarikawe: mind the gap.(dialogue)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... The recent comments on Ugandan artist Jak Katarikawe by the notable East Africanist scholars T. O. Beidelman ("Dialogue," African Arts Summer, 2003), an ethnographic anthropologist, and Sidney Kasfir (review article, African Arts Winter, 2002),...

Joseph-Aurelien Cornet: 1919-2004.(in memoriam)(Obituary)(Biography)
June 22, 2004... Joseph-Aurelien Cornet died at the residence of the Christian Brothers in Ciney, Belgium, on January 20, 2004, aged 84. In 1970 he had been appointed the first local director of the Institut des Musees nationaux du Congo (IMNC)--from 1971 to...

Jean Rouch: 1917-2004.(in memoriam)(Obituary)
June 22, 2004... I first met Jean Rouch in the summer of 1976 in Niamey, the capital of the Republic of Niger, a place that he considered home, a place where, after the tragic car accident that killed him at the age of 86, he now rests. I had arrived in Niger...

Veil: Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Veil Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art Edited by David A. Bailey and Gilane Tawadros The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. 187 pp., 75 illustrations, foreword, artist and author's biographies. Full color. $25 softcover. ...

Chasing Amy.(Amy Futa's life style )(Biography)
June 22, 2004... When I first met Amy Futa in the African Arts office on the shabby tenth floor of UCLA's Bunche Hall in the late 1970s, she was working as editorial assistant to Alice McGaughey, the managing editor, and John Povey, the editor-in-chief. I...

The African collection at the Hood Museum of Art.
June 22, 2004... The history of the Hood Museum of Art and its African collection is intricately entwined with the unique character of Dartmouth College, the nation's ninth oldest college and a member of the Ivy League (Bass 1985:16). Dartmouth College was...

Kabiito Richard's paintings: a local reinvention in a global perspective.
June 22, 2004... The complexity of the history of modern art in Africa is no big news. Not only was institutional art training introduced in the African colonies under individual circumstances, but its destiny at each of those sites has been decisively shaped...

Folk arts and personal independence in Tanzania: Fundi Mdawalo bin Milonge.(Biography)
June 22, 2004... This short paper examines the life and work of a single Tanzanian folk artist, Fundi Mdawalo bin Milonge (Fig. 1), who enjoyed a successful career as a sculptor of wood dolls for sale to Europeans and traditional regalia for Luguru men in...

Postal images of Africa: a new frontier.
June 22, 2004... More than simply allowing mail to get from one point to another, postage stamps can convey a wide range of information, both deliberately and inadvertantly. Postage stamps were originally construed as prepayment for the service of transporting...

Propaganda for the millions: images from Africa.
June 22, 2004... Stamp imagery is a fruitful object of study on numerous grounds. Stamps are the work of artists, frequently indigenous to the countries they work for, who are attempting to convey an idea, a feeling for particular themes of interest to the...

Re-presenting Africa: commemorative postage stamps of the colonial exhibition of Paris (1931).
June 22, 2004... During the Exposition Coloniale Internationale of Paris in 1931, France issued six commemorative postage stamps. Several scholars have written about the human exhibits, representations, and products of the fairs, but no one has examined the...

Sculpted posts: architectural decoration on Gabonese stamps.
June 22, 2004... A few blocks from Libreville's Musee national des Arts et Traditions stands the Centre Philatelique. Located alongside the city's main post office, the postage stamp center complements the national museum by offering visitors a pictorial...

Commemorating the chief: the politics of postage stamps in West Africa.(Moro Naba Sagha)
June 22, 2004... The images on postage stamps are not chosen at random; in fact, since the issuing of postage stamps remains the monopoly of the central government in every country in Africa, the choice of many images, especially those depicting chiefs and...

Dancing a new face contemporary Sala Mpasu masquerades.(photo essay)
June 22, 2004... The Sala Mpasu are a people who have repeatedly reinvented themselves during the twentieth century. The last of the peoples in the Congo (1) to be conquered by the Belgians, the Sala Mpasu had succeeded in keeping outsiders away by combining...

Sub-Saharan Africa Gallery Reinstallation.(Cleveland Museum of Art )
June 22, 2004... Cleveland Museum of Art In 2003 the Cleveland Museum of Art reopened its African art gallery. Here, Constantine Petridis, the museum's curator of African art, carries out a reinstallation at once conservative, in its adherence to...

Mwamenezili (The Way It Is) Friday Tembo and Geoffrey Phiri.(art exhibition)
June 22, 2004... Kabulonga, Lusaka, Zambia February, 2004 Just one month before Friday Tembo--one of Zambia's leading sculptors--passed away, his exhibition with Geoffrey Phiri, "Mwamenezili" (Chinyanja for "the way it is"), opened in Kabulonga, Lusaka....

Current events.(Calendar)
June 22, 2004... Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Asking for Eyes The Visual Voice of Southern Africa November 8-December 4, 2004 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Saluting Vodou Spirits...

Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway Edited by Trevor Schoonmaker Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2003. x + 208 pp., 41 b/w + 11 color illustrations, map, notes, timeline, index. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Six years after his...

Rorke's Drift: Empowering Prints.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Rorke's Drift Empowering Prints Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin Double Storey Books, Capetown, 2003. 242 pp. 206 b/w & 48 color illustrations. 250 Rands hardcover. The Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Center, Rorke's Drift,...

The Ordeal of the African Writer.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Ordeal of the African Writer by Charles R. Larson Zed Books Ltd., distributed by Palgrave, New York, 2001. viii + 168pp. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. The now-familiar claim made by Amadou Hampate Ba, that "in Africa, when an old person...