African Arts articles from March 2006

African Arts archives from March 2006

African art and culture in Maine.(first word)
March 22, 2006... In recent years I have resided in Maine during the summer. Maine is one of the least ethnically diverse states in the United States. Yet, I have found a variety of African activities and individuals there. There may be others that I have not...

Textiles Bogolan du Mali: A Response.(dialogue)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... I write regarding the recent museum publication, Textiles Bogolan du Mali by Pauline Duponchel (2004), reviewed by Victoria Rovine in African Arts 38, 3 (Fall 2005). I admire this book for being the first long text to unite a discussion of...

Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar Edited by Chapurukha M. Kusimba, J. Claire Odland, and Bennet Bronson UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series, No. 7. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History and...

The challenge of the modern: an introduction.(Art Historical Perspectives on African Modernism)
March 22, 2006... The evolution of modern African art history has been steady and incremental, and arguably matches the growing global audience for contemporary African art, particularly in the past decade. New journals focusing on the subject have come on...

Spectacular nation: Nkrumahist art and resistance iconography in the Ghanaian Independence Era.(Art Historical Perspectives on African Modernism)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... Theorists have regarded the privileging of representation as a means of reinforcing ideology to be a primarily Western phenomenon. World exhibitions and spectacles have been described as characteristic of the European scopic regime, as events...

Nationalism and the rhetoric of modernism in Nigeria: The Art of Uche Okeke and Demas Nwoko, 1960-1968.(Art Historical Perspectives on African Modernism)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... On October 6, 1958, Uche Okeke, along with Simon Okeke and Demas Nwoko, had an informal discussion about forming what he then called the Nigerian Art Society (Okeke 1998:270). Uche Okeke and Nwoko were second-year students while Simon Okeke was...

Painting fictions/painting history: modernist pioneers at Senegal's Ecole des Arts.(Art Historical Perspectives on African Modernism)
March 22, 2006... The visual production of pioneer Senegalese modernists has become synonymous with colorful, decorative, and semiabstract depictions of recognizably African subjects rendered in oil paint, gouache, China ink, or tapestry (Fig: 1). Scholarship...

Modernism and cultural politics in East Africa: Cecil Todd's drawings of the Uganda Martyrs.(Art Historical Perspectives on African Modernism)
March 22, 2006... Central to this paper is a set of pencil drawings by an artist of European origin who taught at the art school at Uganda's Makerere University in the 1960s. A contextual look at this series unveils links between art and a broader cultural...

The double agent: humanism, history, and allegory in the art of Durant Sihlali (1939-2004).(Art Historical Perspective on African Modernism)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... Respect for everyone's worldview, the cow's worldview, the squirrel's worldview, and so forth. In the end it leads to total intellectual paralysis. You spend so much time respecting that you don't have time to think. J.M. Coetzee (1999:47)...

Visual Griots of Mali: empowering youth through the Art of Photography.(exhibition preview)
March 22, 2006... "We must stop thinking that everything must arrive on a wave from the West, and realize that we are capable of creating an image of our own that can ride its own wave in the opposite direction." --Alioune Ba, workshop instructor;...

Asking for Eyes: The Visual Voice of Southeast Africa: Selections from the Sana Foundation.(San Diego State University Art Gallery)(William D. Cannon Art Gallery)
March 22, 2006... Asking for Eyes: The Visual Voice of Southeast Africa Selections from the Sana Foundation San Diego State University Art Gallery Nov 8-Dec. 4, 2004 William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Campbell, CA, April 23-July 9, 2006 ...

Evhe--Ouatchi: Un'estetica del Disordine/Une esthetique du disordre.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Evhe--Ouatchi: Un'estetica del Disordine/Une esthetique du disordre edited by Giovanna Parodi da Passano Milan: Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, 2004. 163 pp., 158 ill. Price 30. An exhibition of power objects connected to the several...