Research Catalog

Title

Visual cultures of Africa / Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel, Ernst Wagner (eds.).

Publication

M Waxmann, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kidenda, Mary Clare
• Kriel, Lize
• Wagner, Ernst (Art historian)

Description

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Subject

• Arts, African
• Arts and society > Africa
• Popular culture > Africa
• Visual communication > Africa
• Arts and society
• Popular culture
• Visual communication
• Africa

Note

• "This book is a publication of the Exploring Visual Cultures project, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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

Call Number

Sc E 23-106

ISBN

• 9783830945239
• 383094523X

OCLC

1353174361

Title

Visual cultures of Africa / Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel, Ernst Wagner (eds.).

Publisher

M ster : Waxmann, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Kidenda, Mary Clare, editor, contributor.

Kriel, Lize, editor, contributor.

Wagner, Ernst (Art historian), editor, contributor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-106