African Arts articles from September 2002

African Arts archives from September 2002

Nine contradictions in the new golden age of African art. (First Word).
September 22, 2002... African art today is in the midst of a brilliant renaissance, heralded in exhibitions such as "The Short Century," which recently closed at PS. 1 in New York. That show, curated by Okwui Enwezor, adjunct curator of contemporary art at the Art...

The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Barry Hallen Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2000. 201 pp., appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $39.95 hardcover, $17.95 softcover. It's no secret that most of the Western world persists in regarding...

African Art and Artefacts in European Collections 1400-1800.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ezio Bassani British Museum Press, London, 2001. xxxix + 328 pp., 615 b/w photos, CD-ROM. 85 [pounds sterling] hardcover. The publication of this book, the culmination of decades of work by Ezio Bassani, is a major event in the art...

The Ecole de Dakar: pan-Africanism in paint and textile.
September 22, 2002... At a time when African-art historians are increasingly addressing contemporary African arts, efforts to reexamine the contributions of pioneering artists, patrons, and cultural activists who operated during the immediate post-Independence...

Dealing with the devil: meaning and the marketplace in Makonde sculpture.
September 22, 2002... In 1970 the Grosvenor Gallery in London exhibited "Makonde Sculpture," a collection of ebony wood carvings produced mostly by Mozambican migrants living in Tanzania. Writing on the exhibition, Dennis Duerden protested that although those he...

Sites of identity and resistance: urban community murals and rural wall decoration in South Africa.
September 22, 2002... In 1977 Thomas Matthews wrote: "Mural painting in South Africa is a domestic art, identified with the dwelling and made by the woman who inhabits it" (Matthews 1977:28). Since then a vibrant and very different tradition of mural painting has...

Genesis: ideas of origin in African sculpture. (Exhibition Preview).
September 22, 2002... "... a fortunate blend of myth and history, penetrates even deeper into that area of man's cosmogonic hunger, one which leads him to the profounder forms of art as retrieval vehicles for, or assertive links with, a lost sense of origin." ...

The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994.
September 22, 2002... P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center Long Island City, New York February 10-May 5, 2002 "The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994" was an ambitious, exciting, and important exhibition for the study of African...

Legends, Sorcerers and Enchanted Lizards: Door Locks of the Bamana of Mali.
September 22, 2002... The African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers Tenafly, New Jersey October 14, 2001-March 15, 2002 When isolated in display cases, door locks of the Bamana peoples of Mali may not be the most exciting illustrations of African creativity. But...

Recalling the Future Art in Contemporary Africa.(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Produced and directed by Claudine Pommier Executive Producer Cheikh Tidiane N'diaye Arts in Action Society (Vancouver, Canada) and Sud Prod SenVision S.A. (Dakar, Senegal), 2000. Versions in French (Memoire du Futur: Art en Afrique...

The Parchment Makers: an Ancient Art in Present-Day Ethiopia.(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Directed by Neal W. Sobania and Raymond A. Silverman 1/2" VHS videocassette, color, 19 min. Hope College (Holland, Michigan) and Sola Scriptura (Orlando, Florida), 2000. Available from International Education Office, Hope College. $20 NTSC...

Current events.
September 22, 2002... Information subject to change Western states (by closing date) ETERNAL EGYPT Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum Through November 3 California Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco, CA ASIAN &...

Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Alisa LaGamma The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000. 80 pp., 5 b/w & 50 color photos. $19.95 soft-cover. Art and Oracle was published to accompany an exhibition of the same name that was mounted at the Metropolitan Museum of...