Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.
• Förster, Till.

Description

vi, 410 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Series Statement

African expressive cultures

Uniform Title

African expressive cultures.

Subjects

• Artists' studios > Africa
• Art patronage > Africa
• Artisans > Africa > Societies, etc
• Workshops > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 14-327

ISBN

• 9780253007490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0253007496 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780253007414 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253007410 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780253007582 (eb)
• 0253007585 (eb)

LCCN

2012036058

OCLC

783167542

Title

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

Imprint

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.

Series

African expressive cultures

African expressive cultures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.

Förster, Till.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-327