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Images of Congo : Anne Eisner's art and ethnography, 1946-1958 / edited by Christie McDonald ; essays by Suzanne Preston Blier ... [et al.] ; comments from painters Louis Finkelstein and Joan McD. Miller ; a preface by Abiola Irele.
- Title
- Images of Congo : Anne Eisner's art and ethnography, 1946-1958 / edited by Christie McDonald ; essays by Suzanne Preston Blier ... [et al.] ; comments from painters Louis Finkelstein and Joan McD. Miller ; a preface by Abiola Irele.
- Author
- McDonald, Christie, 1942-
- Publication
- Milan : 5 Continents, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N7399.C6 I43 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 159 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This book contributes an important aesthetic perspective to the understanding of an area that has long fascinated anthropologists and others. It is part of a broadly emerging review of the colonial era in the Congo. The writers in this volume come together to discuss Anne Eisner's life, collecting of African objects, her art and writing about Epulu and the people who lived there."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Art
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-156).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Anne Eisner's art and ethnology, 1946-58 / Christie McDonald -- Drawing on the forest : Anne Eisner at Epulu / Rosanna Warren -- Ethnography, literature and art : making sense of colonial life in the Ituri Forest / Christie McDonald -- Modernism and ethnology in the Ituri : Anne Eisner, Colin Turnbull, and the Mbuti / Enid Schildkrout -- Mapping the Ituri : Mbuti bark-cloth paintings and the canvases of Anne Eisner / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Pygmy images and the making of Madami, a memoir by Anne Eisner Putnam and Allan Keller (1954) / Christraud M. Geary -- Beyond the images : hearing Anne Eisner Putnam's African world / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Commentary about Anne Eisner art from early critics to painters Louis Finkelstein and Joan McD. Miller -- Selected quotations from reviews during the early years when Anne Eisner exhibited -- "Sight-reading" Anne Eisner's work / Louis Finkelstein -- Anne Eisner : notes from a painter's point of view / Joan McD. Miller.
- ISBN
- 8874392206
- 9788874392209
- OCLC
- 57638665
- SCSB-10815409
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library