Author: National Museum of African Art (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, African
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Author: National Museum of African Art (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Permanent Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Author: National Museum of African Art (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, African
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Permanent Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Author: National Museum of African ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9788857232294
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The cinema of Nigeria, often referred to as "Nollywood" is a term coined in the mid-1990s to describe Nigeria's vibrant, film industry consists of movies produced in the country but watched all over Africa and largely by Africans in the diaspora. The history and development of the Nigerian motion picture industry is sometimes generally classified in four main eras: the Colonial era, Golden Age, Video film era and the emerging New Nigerian cinema. The book presents a selection of photographic portraits by Iké Udé depicting some of the major Nigerian actors and actress, television presenters, directors and producers: from Genevieve Nnaji, Alexx Ekubo and Kunle Afolayan to Gideon Okeke, Chioma Ude and Osas Ighodaro. With his ongoing photographic self-portraits, Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/postnationalist, mainstream/ marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art. As a Nigerian born, New York based artist, conversant with the world of fashion and celebrity, Udé gives conceptual aspects of performance and representation a new vitality, melding his own theatrical selves and multiple personae with his art.
Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Author: National museum of African art (Washington D.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Author: National Museum of African Art (U.S.)Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The National Museum of African Art began as a private educational institution in 1964 and became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1979. This volume includes highlights from the museum's holdings of traditional African art from throughout the continent, although the majority of works originated in sub-Saharan Africa. The 150 objects presented include sculpted masks and figures, regalia, items of personal adornment, textiles, furniture, and household objects. Each entry provides a discussion about the object's meaning and use and includes provenance and publication history. Fully illustrated in color, the handbook also includes maps, an extensive bibliography, and an introduction by Roy Sieber, America's foremost authority on traditional African art.
Fragile Legacies
Author: Amy J. StaplesPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781907804991
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fragile Legacies showcases the extraordinary photographs of Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge (1911-1994), one of Nigeria's premier photographers and the first official photographer to the royal court of the Benin kingdom. Alonge's photographs document a half-century of the Benin palace and the rituals, pageantry, and regalia of the obas (kings), and provide rare insight into the early histories and practices of studio photography in West Africa. His insider status provides an important perspective for examining the transformations of Benin City during the early to mid-twentieth century. --Front flap.
African Vision
Author: Christine Mullen KreamerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Asked why he decided to collect African art, Paul Tishman replied, "How does one fall in love?" Such was the passion Paul and Ruth Tishman brought to collecting. The Tishmans acquired their first works of African art - an ivory figure and a bronze mask from the Benin kingdom - in the late 1950s. Over the next 20 plus years, the Tishmans built one of the great private collections of African art that included the major art traditions found throughout the continent. The Tishmans' desire to share the art with as many people as possible led to the 1984 sale of the collection to the Walt Disney Company, who proved to be generous stewards, making the collection available for exhibition and publication. In the autumn of 2005, the Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, donated the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection to the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, continuing the tradition of sharing the rich history of African art and culture with current and future generations." --
African Vision
Author: Christine Mullen KreamerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Representing Africa in American Art Museums
Author: Kathleen Bickford BerzockPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295989617
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The first comprehensive book to focus on the history of African art in American art museums. ... Thirteen essays present the institutional biographies of African art collections in the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Hampton University Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Barnes Foundation, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Primitive Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indiana University of Art Museum, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the University of Iowa Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Menil Collection, and the National Museum of African Art."--back cover.