Visual Cultures of Africa
The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to embodied performances by dancers and storytellers, even re-designed models of Western cars. Educators, designers, ar...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Münster :
Waxmann
2022.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720291706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Lize Kriel Introduction
- Visual cultures in Africa: Skills, knowledge, preservation and transfer as praxis
- Ebenezer Kwabena Acquah and Isaac Opoku-Mensah Stimulating visual cultural literacy. Akan symbolic forms in perspective
- Jane Otieno Socio-cultural aspects of traditional pottery production among Jonyuol Nyalo women group, Kisumu, Kenya
- Mary Clare Kidenda How BerNeno creations in the Jua Kali sector use reflective practice for apprenticeship in product design
- Rashida Resario The visible and the invisible in the visual culture of the Ghana Dance Ensemble. Towards mimetic empathy
- Melisa Achoko Allela and Odoch Pido Digitising Lawino. Creating an expressive embodied conversational agent based on Okot p'Biteks' Song of Lawino
- Alexis Malefakis From "recycling art" to "reverse engineering". Skill research in the Ethnographic Museum
- Visual cultures of Africa: Collections, museums andexhibitions from conservation to conversation
- Stefan Eisenhofer "Fetish figures" (minkisi) from Central Africa and Catholic holy figures from Europe
- Mark Evans Émigrés and African art in England
- Njeri Gachihi, Frauke Gathof, Clara Himmelheber, Lydia Nafula, Leonie Neumann, Philemon Nyamanga, and Juma Ondeng' Visualizing the Kenyan collections in Western museums. An intercontinental
- Bea Lundt What about the "Castles" in Ghana? Material relics of colonialism and the slave trade: a disturbing and challenging visual legacy of three continents
- Benjamin Merten Concrete Limbo. A trans-continental dialogue on space and responsibility
- African visual expression in materials and media appropriated from encounters with the West
- Esther Kute and Odoch Pido The shoes on my feet. A visual culture of footwear in Africa
- Lize Kriel Book cover design and the visual culture of land and ancestors. The case of Botlale Tema's Welgeval, Pilanesberg, South Africa
- Lydia Muthuma and Fred Mbogo The film Softie and the Kenyan imaginary
- Amanda du Preez The right to be seen and to look. Selfies # FeesMustFall and # endSARS
- Contemporary Art: African praxis as conversation with its past and with the world
- Ernst Wagner and Sokari Douglas Camp In-Between. A conversation between Sokari Douglas Camp and Ernst Wagner
- Runette Kruger Strategies of co-liberation and belonging in the work of South African artists Titus Matiyane and Candice Breitz
- Avitha Sooful Breaking traditional rules. Artmaking practices of Muelwa Noria Mabasa and Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi
- Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako Visual culture and conflicts of representation in contemporary art in Cameroon
- Angelika Boeck Africanisation of the European - vulnerability and de-colonisation
- Ronnie Watt Reading South African ceramics as narratives of entanglement and constructed alterity
- Authors.
