African Arts back issues from June 2002:
Leopold Senghor: the strength of contradictions. (first word).
Jun 22, 2002; ... Leopold Sedar Senghor lived a remarkable life that spanned nearly the entire twentieth century and embodied many of its contradictions. Combining memories of his childhood in coastal Senegal, where he was born in 1906, with the discipline of his classical French education, a passion for ...
The poet of Negritude. (first word).
Jun 22, 2002; ... Leopold Sedar Senghor's unforgettable poems proclaimed a world view that, in his eyes and mind, characterized all the black peoples of Africa and of African descent. When he died last December in Normandy, France, at the age of 96, most of the world had become familiar with his name ...
Le Boubou--C'est Chic: Les boubous du Mali et d'autres pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2002; ... Bernard Gardi Museum der Kulturen Basel and Editions Christoph Merian, Basel, 2000. Text in French. 207 pp., 179 illustrations, map, bibliography. SF 36 hardcover; German edition DM 41. Le Boubou--c'est chic, the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name held at ...
Roy Sieber memorial issues. (dialogue).
Jun 22, 2002 ... The Spring and Summer 2003 issues of African Arts will be a tribute to the African-art ...
Stolen mask. (dialogue).(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2002 ... A Mano mask from the Dan peoples of Liberia was stolen from a private collection in Sweden in January. The mask (24 cm high) was published in Before Picasso: African Art in Swedish Collections, 2 December ...
Alice McGaughey: 1925-2002. (in memoriam).(Obituary)
Jun 22, 2002; ... Alice liked to anticipate the worst. After almost every one of African Arts' white-knuckled descents on the financial rollercoaster, she would tell me with a grim sigh, "Time to clean out our desks." Somehow, however, disaster would be averted; our ride car would nose upward. In 1988, ...
The Art of Ancient Egypt.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2002; ... Gay Robin Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. 272 pp., 188 b/w & 122 color illustrations, map. $24.95 softcover. Although a handful of books surveying ancient Egyptian art are readily available and published with the general reader or classroom user in ...
Ethnographic notes on Kongo musical instruments.
Jun 22, 2002; ... The basic text on Kongo musical instruments is Bertil Soderberg's thesis (1956), which is based on an exhaustive search of the literature of the day, a good deal of museum research, and his field experience as a missionary. Soderberg takes many details from K. E. Laman's Dictionnaire ...
Musee Dapper new directions for a postcolonial museum.
Jun 22, 2002; ... On a rainy afternoon in November 2001, I visited the new locale of the Musee Dapper at 35 rue Paul Valery in Paris. After considerable renovation, the museum had opened a year earlier with an inaugural show containing 150 pieces from several renowned European collections. Named after a ...
Sources and themes in the art of Obiora Udechukwu.
Jun 22, 2002; ... <Pre>Me to the orangerysolitude invites,a wagtail, to tellthe tangled-wood-tale;a sunbird, to mourna mother on a spray. </Pre> Christopher Okigbo, "The Passage," from Heavensgate (in Okigbo 1971:4) Obiora Udechukwu belongs to the generation ...
Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa. (exhibition preview).
Jun 22, 2002; ... "Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa" is a collaborative effort between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Drawing from the collection of Jay T. Last, the exhibition's curator, Elisabeth L. Cameron, selected ...
Dogon funerals. (photo essay).
Jun 22, 2002; ... While living as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dogon villages of Dologou and Kedialy from 1996 to 1998, I had the opportunity to observe several funerary rituals, dama, which incorporate many of the famous Dogon masks and statuettes. The elaborate celebrations mark the passing of the ...
Chant Avedissian: A Contemporary Artist of Egypt.
Jun 22, 2002; ... National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. November 19, 2000-February 19, 2001 ENCOUNTERS WITH THE CONTEMPORARY National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. January 7, 2001-January 6, 2002 As ...
William Kentridge.
Jun 22, 2002; ... New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, New York June 2-September 16, 2001 Only thirteen years ago, William Kentridge had difficulty persuading New York art galleries to look at slides of his work. Today he is perhaps the most internationally celebrated South African artist, ...
FNB Vita Art Prize Exhibition 2001.
Jun 22, 2002; ... NSA Gallery Glenwood, Durban, South Africa August 7, 2001-September 8, 2001 South Africa's long history of social inequality is reflected in art competitions and exhibitions. Choosing the "best" artists among people who have not had the same access to education and resources ...
Current events.(Calendar)
Jun 22, 2002 ... Information subject to change <Pre> western states (by closing date) OVER THE LINE The Art end Life of Jacob Lawrence Through September 8 Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA WILLIAM KENTRIDGE July 21-October 6 Los Angeles County Museum of Art ....
Insight and Artistry in African Divination.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2002; ... Edited by John Pemberton III Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., and London, 2000. 209 pp., 71 b/w & 19 color photos. $65 hardcover, $29.95 softcover. This publication presents fifteen essays by scholars on African divination; it was occasioned by an ...
Art in South Africa: the Future Present.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2002; ... Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal David Philip Publishers, Clarement, South Africa, 1996. 159 pp., color photos, index. $34.95 softcover. WOMEN AND ART IN SOUTH AFRICA Marion Arnold St. Martin's Press, New York, first published by David Philips Publishers, ...