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African Arts articles from March 2008
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 March 2008
African Art at the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva (MEG).(first word)
March 22, 2008... In Europe, most African art in public collections is to be found in ethnographic museums. The role of these ethnographic museums in society has been open to debate for some years now. The majority have their origins in the colonial era and are...
Global Africa: through the lens of visual culture: fourteenth Triennial Symposium on African Art, Gainesville, FL March 28-April 1 2007.(conference report)(Conference news)
March 22, 2008... The Triennial Symposium on African Art, sponsored by the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), was hosted this year by the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville and took place at the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art and the...
Clarification.(dialogue)(Correction notice)
March 22, 2008... In "'Come and Try': Towards a History of Fante Military Shrines" (vol. 40, no. 3 PP. 12-35), the sidebar on p. 12 stated that "the images in this article constitute, as far as I am aware, a complete corpus of posuban." This should have read "a...
"Intersections".(dialogue)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... I write in connection with the preview article (vol. 39, no. 4, PP. 14-35) published in a recent issue of African Arts concerning the new exhibition at the Fowler Museum.
With regard to Fig. 19 (p. 24), the attribution may require a little...
Couples or doubles? Representations of twins in the Arts of Africa.(Report)
March 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED]
Most of the papers collected here were originally presented at the 13th Triennial Symposium for African Art, Harvard University, Spring 2004. Several important treatments of the topic preceded our efforts. In 2001,...
Ejiwapo: the dialectics of twoness in Yoruba art and culture.
March 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED]
The notion that reality has two aspects (i.e., spirit/matter, visible/invisible, male/female, good/evil, essence/ existence) is a universal and ancient phenomenon. However, its implications vary from one culture to...
Twins, hermaphrodites, and an androgynous albino deity: twins and sculpted twin figures among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
The Bamana (Bambara) and Maninka (Malinke) of Mali conceptualize twins in a broad context. This includes twins (flaniw) who are monozygotic or identical twins (two individuals born together and derived from one egg...
Temne twins (ta-bari) should share everything: do you mean everything?(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED]
This is a story of miniature spirit houses, elfin wooden beings, the empty shells of the dead, and the fear of sexual transgression, especially incest compounded by homosexuality. It takes place among the Temne people of...
Doubles and twins: a new approach to contemporary studio photography in West Africa.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED]
African studio portraiture is not exclusive to renowned photographers such as Malians Seydou Keita or Malick Sidibe. Many lesser-known photographers, compose pictures responding to their customers desires and arousing...
Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea.
March 22, 2008... Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea
December 16, 2006-January 27, 2007 Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
In 1984 William Rubin, art historian, curator, and director of the Museum of Modern Art's department of painting and...
Trajectoires: Art Contemporain du Senegal.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Trajectoires: Art Contemporain du Senegal
Musee de I'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) Dakar, Senegal January 24 to March 9, 2007
The exhibition "Trajectoires: Art Contemporain du Senegal" encompassed more than 130 works by...
Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria ed. Barbara Plankensteiner Vienna: Snoeck Publishers, 2007. 535 pp., 1 map, 500 illustrations, bibliography. 49 [euro] (paper).
Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria, edited by...