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Africa interweave : textile diasporas
- Title
- Africa interweave : textile diasporas / Susan Cooksey ; with essays by Cynthia Becker ... [et al.].
- Author
- Cooksey, Susan.
- Publication
- Gainesville, Fla. : Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, c2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 159 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 31 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Textile diasporas
- Subject
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Feb. 8-May 8, 2011.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Tracing the routes of indigo : four textiles from West Africa / Susan Cooksey -- A noble multimedia/intermedia event : the Ako celebration of the Owo Yoruba kingdom / Robin Poynor -- Trans-Saharan aesthetics : textiles at the desert fringe / Cynthia Becker -- West African embroidery : history, continuity, and innovation / Victoria L. Rovine -- Ghanaian kente and African-print commemorative cloth / Suzanne Gott -- Prints and politics : reflections on President Obama's visit to Ghana / Christopher Richards -- Bazin in Mali : the crossroads of style / Susan Cooksey -- Bark and raffia cloth : interpreting indigenous prestige / Susan Cooksey -- Futa benadir : a Somali tradition within the folds of the western Indian Ocean / Sarah Fee -- The emergence of the kanga : a distinctly East African textile / MacKenzie Moon Ryan -- Cloth and performance : the work of Viyé Diba and Achamyeleh Debela / Susan Cooksey -- Griffins, crocodiles, and the British ensign : Kweku Kakanu's asafo flags and followers / Courtney Micots -- Displaying the ostentatious : contemporary chieftancy dress and the Ebonko costume from Calabar, Nigeria / Jordan A. Fenton -- Transfigured textiles : masquerades and imported cloth / Susan Cooksey.
- Call Number
- Sc+ G 13-31
- ISBN
- 9780983308508 (pbk.)
- 0983308500 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2011007064
- OCLC
- 702648055
- Author
- Cooksey, Susan.
- Title
- Africa interweave : textile diasporas / Susan Cooksey ; with essays by Cynthia Becker ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- Gainesville, Fla. : Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Becker, Cynthia J., 1965-Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.
- Research Call Number
- Sc+ G 13-31