African Arts articles from March 2003

African Arts archives from March 2003

A crisis in connoisseurship?(first word)
March 22, 2003... In its most direct sense, a connoisseur is "a person who knows," although art or music or wine is usually implied as the subject known. In African art, connoisseurship is about quality and authenticity, surely but a lot more as well: styles,...

An/Sichten: Malerei aus dem Kongo 1990-2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Barbara Plankensteiner Springer Verlag, Vienna and New York, and Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna, 2001. Text in German. 192 pp., 207 color & 6 b/w photo, map, dateline. bibliography. $34.50 softcover. Scholarship...

A tribute to Roy Sieber: Part 1.
March 22, 2003... A great tree has fallen. A mighty tree has been uprooted. Man cannot deny death. We would have saved you, were we able. But death cannot be denied. You go to join the elders. We pray you honor us to them. We pray you block the path of death,...

Ikayan aru: Ijo vessels of sacrifice.
March 22, 2003... I became interested in the Ijo as an NEH intern at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where my assignments included research on a Kalabari Ijo screen. A year later, when I enrolled at Indiana University, Dr. Sieber confided that he had...

Defining African art: Primitive Negro Sculpture and the aesthetic philosophy of Albert Barnes.
March 22, 2003... Although I was never officially his student, Roy Sieber inspired my research on the history of African art collecting in the United States and was an important mentor to me. More than a decade ago, as a doctoral student at the University of...

Jewelry, fashion, and identity: the Tuareg example.
March 22, 2003... When I entered the African Art History program at Indiana University in 1986, I was already aware at the legends and stories surrounding Roy Sieber: the birthday cake that landed on the floor, the evenings at his home that were spent looking at...

Golden emblems of maternal benevolence: transformations of form and meaning in Akan regalia.
March 22, 2003... I knew Roy Sieber as a teacher and mentor. I became his student after he had officially retired, but as in all other aspects of his active and productive career, retirement didn't end his commitment to train a new generation of African-arts...

Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture.
March 22, 2003... November 19, 2002-April 13, 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York This was a stunning exhibition of seventy five works of art representing seventeen distinct sculptural traditions in sub-Saharan Africa. Alisa LaGamma,...

Lega: Ethics and Beauty in the Heart of Africa.
March 22, 2003... KBC Bank Gallery Brussels, Belgium May 4-July 28, 2002 There are a handful of African peoples we tend to associate automatically with their "own" anthropologist or art historian. Examples that spring to mind are the Dogon of Marcel Griaule...

A note on Benin's recent antiquities.(first word)
March 22, 2003... In the 1980s, ivories and bronzes misrepresented as Benin antiquities began to appear with regularity in the U.S. and Europe. The volume has steadily increased, so that duplicates and triplicates are now reaching the market. Various stories...

Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Edited by Susan J. Torntore The Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. 2001. 80 pp., 16 b/w & 41 color photos, map, appendix. $20 softcover. Art collections, particularly those in private hands, often reveal as...

New publications.
March 22, 2003... African Renaissance: Old Forms, New Images M Yoruba Art, by Moyo Okediji. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2002. 200 pp., 42 b/w & 20 color photos. $49.95 hardcover, $21.95 softcover. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art,...