African art and agency in the workshop / / edited by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Forster

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (429 p.)
• Disciplina: 706.06
• Soggetto topico: Workshops - Africa; Artists' studios - Africa; Artisans - Africa - Societies, etc; Art patronage - Africa
• Altri autori: KasfirSidney Littlefield FörsterTill
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Rethinking the Workshop: Work and Agency in African Art; The Contributions to This Book; Part 1: Production, Education, and Learning; 1 Grace Dieu Mission in South Africa: Defining the Modern Art Workshop in Africa; 2 Follow the Wood: Carving and Political Cosmology in Oku, Cameroon; 3 Masters, Trend-makers, and Producers: The Village of Nsei, Cameroon, as a Multi-sited Pottery Workshop; 4 An Artist's Notes on the Triangle Workshops, Zambia and South Africa; Part 2: Audience and Encounters ; 5 Stitched-up Women, Pinned-down Men: Gender Politics in Weya and Mapula Needlework, Zimbabwe and South Africa 6 Rethinking Mbari Mbayo: Osogbo Workshops in the 1960's, Nigeria; 7 Working on the Small Difference: Notes on the Making of Sculpture in Tengenenge, Zimbabwe; 8 Navigating Nairobi: Artists in a Workshop System, Kenya; Part 3: Patronage and Domination; 9 Lewanika's Workshop and the Vision of Lozi Arts, Zambia; 10 Artesãos da Nossa Pátria: Makonde Blackwood Sculptors, Cooperatives, and the Art of Socialist Revolution in Postcolonial Mozambique ; 11 Frank McEwen and Joram Mariga: Patron and Artist in the Rhodesian Workshop School Setting, Zimbabwe 12 ""A Matter of Must"": Continuities and Change in the Adugbologe Woodcarving Workshop in Abeokuta, Nigeria; Part 4: Comparative Aspects; 13 Work and Workshop: The Iteration of Style and Genre in Two Workshop Settings, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon; 14 Apprentices and Entrepreneurs: The Workshop and Style Uniformity in Sub-Saharan Africa; Coda; Apprentices and Entrepreneurs Revisited: Twenty Years of Workshop Changes, 1987-2007; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 C
• Titolo autorizzato: African art and agency in the workshop
• ISBN: 1-299-24345-2; 0-253-00758-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973949803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African expressive cultures.