Narrative Wisdom and African Arts

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Herausgegeben:Bridges, Nichole N.

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240 Seiten

Englisch

Hirmererscheint am31.10.2024

Narrative Wisdom and African Arts explores how historical and contemporary African arts make visible narratives rooted in collective and individual memory and knowledge. Historical works made by artists across sub-Saharan Africa during the thirteenth to twentieth centuries dialogue with contemporary works by African artists working around the globe.This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of intersections between African arts and narrative across expansive genres, cultures, periods, and contexts of patronage. More than two hundred color images explore an extensive array of media including sculpture in wood, ivory, metal, textiles, works on paper, photography, painting, and time-based media works. Acknowledging intersections between certain historical arts and oral traditions, Nichole N. Bridges surveys assorted visual modes and motives of arts that facilitate, document, reinforce, or critique narratives concerning the legitimacy of leaders, memory of place, prescriptions for healing and destiny, and enduring ancestral wisdoms.mehr

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KlappentextNarrative Wisdom and African Arts explores how historical and contemporary African arts make visible narratives rooted in collective and individual memory and knowledge. Historical works made by artists across sub-Saharan Africa during the thirteenth to twentieth centuries dialogue with contemporary works by African artists working around the globe.This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of intersections between African arts and narrative across expansive genres, cultures, periods, and contexts of patronage. More than two hundred color images explore an extensive array of media including sculpture in wood, ivory, metal, textiles, works on paper, photography, painting, and time-based media works. Acknowledging intersections between certain historical arts and oral traditions, Nichole N. Bridges surveys assorted visual modes and motives of arts that facilitate, document, reinforce, or critique narratives concerning the legitimacy of leaders, memory of place, prescriptions for healing and destiny, and enduring ancestral wisdoms.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-7774-4373-7

ProduktartBuch

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Hirmer

Erscheinungsjahr2024

Erscheinungsdatum31.10.2024

Seiten240 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht1436 g

Illustrationen210 Abbildungen in Farbe

Artikel-Nr.56174893

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African Art and Oral Tradition: Intro Nichole Bridges Leadership Arts Shaping Narrative Nichole Bridges Ties that Bind: Blending Contemporary Art and Historical African Art Smooth Nzewi interview of Emeka Ogboh Narrative Resonance through the Centuries: Esigie´s Youthful Challenges on Benin´s Throne Kathryn Curnow Artists from Abomey, artworks from Dahomey: from language to image Gaelle Beaujean Yoruba doors Abayomi Ola Divination as Narrative: The Role of Artworks in Oracular Discourse Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers Speaking Art: Revisiting the Verbal-visual Nexus in Akan and Ghanaian Art Studies Nii Quarcoopome Oral Traditions in African cultures Jacky Maniacky Land/Ecology Memory Elyse Mack Love- Let Me Count the Ways Elyse Mackmehr