LEADER 05893nam 22008291 450 001 9910809509603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-118-51505-6 010 $a1-118-51507-2 010 $a1-118-51510-2 010 $a1-118-51506-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001163187 035 $a(EBL)1498517 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001173516 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11638953 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001173516 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11104546 035 $a(PQKB)11043842 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1498517 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10804825 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4035989 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11110763 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL545325 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1498517 035 $a(OCoLC)861559787 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4035989 035 $a(JP-MeL)3000131754 035 $a(PPN)188041516 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001163187 100 $a20131026d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to modern African Art /$fedited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visona 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aChichester, West Sussex$cWiley Blackwell$d2013 210 1$aChichester, West Sussex :$cWiley Blackwell,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (650 p.) 225 1 $aWiley Blackwell companions in art history ;$v6 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 311 $a1-4443-3837-4 311 $a1-306-14074-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA Companion to Modern African Art; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 Writing African Modernism into Art History; Narrations of Modernism and Modernity; Centering Narratives on Africa's Art Worlds; Chapter Overview; Lacunae and Disjunctures; Notes; References; Part II "Africa Has Always Been Modern"; 2 Local Transformations, Global Inspirations: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata Arts in Africa; Sacred Waters: Ancient and Indigenous Arts for African Water Deities 327 $aAfro-Mami Meets Euro-Mermaid: A Fifteenth-Century Sapi SynthesisThe Mermaid: A Floating Signifier; The Double-Tailed Mermaid in the Art of Benin; Mami Wata and the Image of the Snake Charmer; The Snake Charmer as Mami Wata in Africa; Mami Wata and Hindu Gods and Goddesses; Communicating with Mami Wata: Writing, Reflecting, Calling; Troubled Waters: From Saint to Sinner; Notes; References; Part III Art in Cosmopolitan Africa: The Nineteenth Century; 3 Loango Coast Ivories and the Legacies of Afro-Portuguese Arts; Hybrids at Hello; Contact and Catastrophe; Afro-Portuguese Ivories 327 $aThe Loango Ivories"Authenticity": Drawing the Line; Pointed Imagery; More Animal Tales; Double-Take; Notes; References; 4 Roots and Routes of African Photographic Practices: From Modern to Vernacular Photography in West and Central Africa (1850-1980); "COME ONE! COME ALL! and secure the shadow ere it fades"; Toward a History of Photography in West and Central Africa; Pioneer Photographers and Their Customers along the West and Central African Coasts; From Monrovia to Libreville: The Careers of Several African Pioneer Photographers 327 $aThe Democratization of Photography: The Case of Fumban, CameroonNotes; References; 5 At Home in the World: Portrait Photography and Swahili Mercantile Aesthetics; "Modernity" in African Art History; Challenging "Modernity" and "Place" on the Swahili Coast; Photography and the Colonial Moment; A Swahili Culture of Things; Portrait Photographs as Objects; Modernity on the Edge; Notes; References; 6 African Reimaginations: Presence, Absence, and New Way Architecture; The Scenario for a New History of the Modern; The Palace and the Mosque; Lacuna and History; Removals and Reinstallations 327 $aInvisibility and DifferenceLast Word: The Lines of a Future Argument; Notes; References; Part IV Modernities and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Arts of the Early Twentieth Century; 7 "One of the Best Tools for Learning": Rethinking the Role of 'Abduh's Fatwa in Egyptian Art History; Introduction; Art, Islam, and the Imam; An Insightful Traveler's Observations; "And They Do Not Spare Any Effort in Preserving These Things"; Al-Suwar wa-l-Tamathil: A Fatwa without Fine Arts; Between the Educational and the Legal; The Fatwa's Five Parts; Conclusion; Notes; References 327 $a8 Congolese and Belgian Appropriations of the Colonial Era: The Commissioned Work of Tshelantende (Djilatendo) and Its Reception 330 $a Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. 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