Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

• Becker, Cynthia J., 1965-
• Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.

Description

159 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 31 cm.

Summary

Celebrates an exhibition at the University of Florida’s Harn Museum of Art that features contemporary and traditional African textiles. Catalogs more than fifty objects, including five newly commissioned works. The commissions, many arranged by students conducting fieldwork in countries across the continent, include an embroidered woman’s cotton robe with traditional embroidery patterns in silk from Mali, a kente cloth commemorating a visit to Ghana by Bill Clinton in 2009, and an Ebonko masquerade ensemble from Nigeria. Contributors offer essays on such topics as the trade routes for indigo, kente and other African-print commemorative cloth, chieftaincy dress and masquerades, Asafo flags, the emergence of the East African kanga, and much more. They provide an introduction to both the diversity of local production and aesthetics, as well as the global influence on regional ideas, materials, and techniques. --From publisher description.

Alternative Title

Textile diasporas

Subject

• Textile design > Africa > Exhibitions
• Textile fabrics > Africa > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

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.

ISBN

• 9780983308508 (pbk.)
• 0983308500 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011007064

OCLC

• 702648055
• SCSB-10451587

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library