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Title: | Tradition and modernity in Mozambican sculpture |
Author: | Stanislawska, Zofia |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Africana Bulletin |
Issue: | 44 |
Pages: | 63-75 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mozambique |
Subjects: | Makonde sculpture |
Abstract: | In Mozambican sculpture the coexistence of two apparently distinct artistic languages - traditional and contemporary - is overlapped by another kind of dualism based on geographical and cultural differences. There is Makonde sculpture, the art of the Makonde of northern Mozambique, and there is the urban sculpture that emerged in southern Mozambique in the 1960s, in Lourenço Marques and its suburbs. Based amongst others on interviews with artists and art critics in the years 1990-1991, the author describes evolutionary trends in contemporary Mozambican sculpture, differences, notably in the role of the artists and the object of art, between Makonde and urban sculpture, and mutual influences affecting topic and form. Bibliogr., note, ref. |