Research Catalog

Title

Africa : women's art, women's lives / Betty LaDuke ; preface by Mikelle Omari-Obayemi.

Author

LaDuke, Betty.

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©1997.

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Details

Description

xix, 187 pages : illustrations, map; 29 cm

Summary

• In Africa, women's passion to create is evident during times of peace as well as war, under favorable circumstances as well as the most difficult and dangerous imaginable. Their media of expression can be naturally derived or imported. It can vary from monumental stone sculpture to intricate beadwork, or from painting with mud to oil and acrylic. The passion to decorate is evident in daily life from the designs applied to the smallest clay bowls, to the sturdy mud walls of their compounds where women give birth or see life pass away. These decorations are frequently symbolic and the motifs can please as well as reinforce shared community values.
• Across the African continent, from Timbuktu, Mali to Harare, Zimbabwe or Asmara, Eritrea, whether women weave, sew, sketch, paint, create fabric applique or stone sculptures, their art work often incorporates the duality of myth and reality as they express their hopes, fears, humor, and frustrations.

Subject

• Women artists, Black > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Mikelle S. Omari-Obayemi -- Burkina Faso: The Painted Walls of Tiebele, Tiakane, and Po -- Timbuktu, Mali: Desert Visions in Fabric, Straw, and Leather -- Earth Magic: The Pottery of Mali, Cameroon, and Togo -- Cameroon: Beads, Anlu, and Social Change -- Zimbabwe: Shona Women Sculptors -- Zimbabwe: Rainbird Woman and Weya Women's Art -- Eritrea: Artists/Fighters with New Visions.

ISBN

• 0865434344
• 9780865434349
• 0865434352
• 9780865434356

LCCN

96041841

OCLC

• ocm35521674
• 35521674
• SCSB-361639

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library