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ISBN
9780691092959

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691092958
ISBN-13
9780691092959
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2008081

Product Key Features

Book Title
Art from Africa : Long Steps Never Broke a Back
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Folkcrafts, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, African
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science, Crafts & Hobbies
Author
Pamela Mcclusky, Robert Farris Thompson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight
33.1 Oz
Item Length
10.5 in
Item Width
8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-049735
Reviews
"This innovative work allows the objects it covers to breathe as living things. McClusky has evolved what appears to be a new way of writing a catalogue on African art. The writing is interesting, the stories surrounding the objects often fascinating. Thompson's essay is wonderfully composed. This is a work that can be enjoyed by the non-specialist reader for the tales it tells alone. Further, the objects are impressive, often spectacular." --Simon Ottenberg, University of Washington
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
709.6
Table Of Content
Preface by Mimi Gardner Gates 6 Acknowledgments 9 Introduction by Pamela McClusky 13 African Art in Motion by Robert Farris Thompson 17 Case Histories: Art Steps from Africa to America by Pamela McClusky Heroes Go Solitary Walking: Hunters' Shirts 63 An Art of Persuasion: Regalia from the Asante Kingdom 79 Assembling a Royal Stage: Art from the Kom Kingdom 115 The Fetish and the Imagination of Europe: Sacred Medicines of the Kongo 143 A Sculpture Hungry for Aggression: Ivwri Figure 169 Forest Spirits Far from Home: Dan Masks 179 Beauty Stripped of Human Flaws: Sowei Masks 197 "God's Medicine" against Witchcraft: Costume for Basinjom 215 The Ultimate Spectacle for Powerful Mothers: Gelede Masks 227 Riding into the Next Life: A Mercedes-Benz Coffin 245 "Negatives That Breathe Like You and Me": Photographs from Bamako 253 Collecting Beads and Wishes for the Future: Ornaments for a Maasai Bride 261 Appendix: Sande Society Stories 279 Index 295
Synopsis
This strikingly unusual and beautifully illustrated book represents a turning point in African art history. The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects--in the Seattle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art. Each case history is enriched by comments from artists, art historians, writers, community members, and patrons who guide readers back into the markets, palaces, ceremonies, shrines, and streets where African art originated. Often sitting still and silent in a museum display case, African art is frozen in an alien frame. Vibrant music, movement, debate, and cryptic voices are among the missing elements that once surrounded the mask, sculpture, ring, or stool. Reframing the objects, Art from Africa proposes looking at what was once done with them while also listening carefully to what was once said in their presence. As the case histories reveal, the gross mislabeling of objects as "fetishes," "idols," and "devil masks" dissolves as art becomes better known as medicine, philosophy, personality correctives, and blessings for the future. Known for his scintillating analyses of African art, Robert Farris Thompson devotes his opening essay to introducing the missing dimension of motion, exploring the meaning of postures and gestures in various African cultures. A curator dedicated to telling the stories behind such art, Pamela McClusky explores subjects ranging from royal art of the Kom and Asante kingdoms, masquerades from the Yoruba, Dan, and Mende cultures, hunters' shirts from the Mande empire, sculpture from the Kongo kingdom, Mercedes-Benz coffins from the streets of Ghana, photographs from Mali, and Maasai body ornaments. This book accompanies a special exhibition of the museum's collection, but, as all art lovers who look beyond museum walls will appreciate, it is much more than an exhibition catalogue. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE http: //www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/ Philadelphia Museum of Art October 2, 2004 - January 2, 2005., This strikingly unusual and beautifully illustrated book represents a turning point in African art history. The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects--in the Seattle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art. Each case history is enriched by comments from artists, art historians, writers, community members, and patrons who guide readers back into the markets, palaces, ceremonies, shrines, and streets where African art originated. Often sitting still and silent in a museum display case, African art is frozen in an alien frame. Vibrant music, movement, debate, and cryptic voices are among the missing elements that once surrounded the mask, sculpture, ring, or stool. Reframing the objects, Art from Africa proposes looking at what was once done with them while also listening carefully to what was once said in their presence. As the case histories reveal, the gross mislabeling of objects as "fetishes," "idols," and "devil masks" dissolves as art becomes better known as medicine, philosophy, personality correctives, and blessings for the future. Known for his scintillating analyses of African art, Robert Farris Thompson devotes his opening essay to introducing the missing dimension of motion, exploring the meaning of postures and gestures in various African cultures. A curator dedicated to telling the stories behind such art, Pamela McClusky explores subjects ranging from royal art of the Kom and Asante kingdoms, masquerades from the Yoruba, Dan, and Mende cultures, hunters' shirts from the Mande empire, sculpture from the Kongo kingdom, Mercedes-Benz coffins from the streets of Ghana, photographs from Mali, and Maasai body ornaments. This book accompanies a special exhibition of the museum's collection, but, as all art lovers who look beyond museum walls will appreciate, it is much more than an exhibition catalogue. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/ Philadelphia Museum of Art October 2, 2004 - January 2, 2005.
LC Classification Number
N7391.65.M28 2002

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