ISBN:
978-0-253-00741-4
,
0-253-00741-0
,
978-0-253-00749-0
,
0-253-00749-6
Language:
German
Pages:
VI, 410 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
African Expressive Cultures
DDC:
706.096
Keywords:
Afrika Afrika, Subsahara
;
Kunst, afrikanische
;
Künstler
;
Patronage
;
Bibliografie
;
Bibliografie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Bibliografie
Abstract:
The role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this revelatory book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and creative expression flourishes. African Art and Agency from the Workshop examines the variety of workshops, from those which are politically driven or tourist oriented, to those based on historical patronage or allied to current artistic trends. Fifteen lively essays explore the impact of the workshop on the production of artists such as Zimbabwean stone sculptors, master potters from Cameroon, wood carvers from Nigeria, and others from across the continent.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : rethinking the workshop / Till Förster and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- The contributions to this book / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster. Production, education, and learning. Grace Dieu Mission in South Africa : defining the modern art workshop in Africa / Elizabeth Morton -- Follow the wood : carving and political cosmology in Oku, Cameroon / Nicolas Argenti -- Masters, trend-makers, and producers : the village of Nsei, Cameroon, as a multisited pottery workshop / Silvia Forni -- An artist's notes on the Triangle Workshops, Zambia and South Africa / Namubiru Rose Kirumira and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. Audience and encounters. Stitched-up women, pinned-down men : gender politics in Weya and Mapula needlework, Zimbabwe and South Africa / Brenda Schmahmann -- Rethinking Mbari Mbayo : Osogbo workshops in the 1960s, Nigeria / Chika Okeke-Agulu -- Working on the small difference : notes on the making of sculpture in Tengenenge, Zimbabwe / Christine Scherer -- Navigating Nairobi : artists in a workshop system, Kenya / Jessica Gerschultz. Patronage and domination. Lewanika's workshop and the vision of Lozi Arts, Zambia / Karen E. Milbourne -- Artesãos da nossa pátria : Makonde blackwood sculptors, cooperatives, and the art of socialist revolution in postcolonial Mozambique / Alexander Bortolot -- Frank McEwen and Joram Mariga : patron and artist in the Rhodesian workshop school setting, Zimbabwe / Elizabeth Morton -- "A matter of must" : continuities and change in the Adugbologe woodcarving workshop in Abeokuta, Nigeria / Norma H. Wolff. Comparative aspects. Work and workshop : the iteration of style and genre in two workshop settings, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon / Till Förster -- Apprentices and entrepreneurs : the workshop and style uniformity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. Coda : apprentices and entrepreneurs revisited : twenty years of workshop changes, 1987-2007 / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir.
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