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| Title: | African art and agency in the workshop |
| Editors: | Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield Förster, Till |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Pages: | 410 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African expressive cultures |
| City of publisher: | Bloomington, IN |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| ISBN: | 0253007410; 9780253007414; 0253007496; 9780253007490 |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | decorative arts visual arts artisans artists crafts |
| Abstract: | The role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and creative expression flourishes. This publication examines the variety of workshops, from those which are politically driven or tourist oriented, to those based on historical patronage or allied to current artistic trends. Contributions: Introduction: rethinking the workshop: work and agency in African art (Till Förster and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir); The contributions to this book (Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster); Grace Dieu Mission in South Africa: defining the modern art workshop in Africa (Elizabeth Morton); Follow the wood: carving and political cosmology in Oku, Cameroon (Nicolas Argenti); Masters, trend-makers, and producers: the village of Nsei, Cameroon, as a multisited pottery workshop (Silvia Forni); An artist's notes on the triangle workshops, Zambia and South Africa (Namubiru Rose Kirumira and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir); Stitched-up women, pinned-down men: gender politics in Weya and Mapula needlework, Zimbabwe and South Africa (Brenda Schmahmann); Rethinking Mbari Mbayo: Osogbo workshops in the 1960s, Nigeria (Chika Okeke-Agulu); Working on the small difference: notes on the making of sculpture in Tengenenge, Zimbabwe (Christine Scherer); Navigating Nairobi: artists in a workshop system, Kenya (Jessica Gerschultz); Lewanika's workshop and the vision of Lozi arts, Zambia (Karen E. Milbourne); Artesăos da nossa pátria: Makonde blackwood sculptors, cooperatives, and the art of socialist revolution in postcolonial Mozambique (Alexander Bortolot); Frank McEwen and Joram Mariga: patron and artist in the Rhodesian workshop school setting, Zimbabwe (Elizabeth Morton); 'A Matter of must': continuities and change in the Adugbologe woodcarving workshop in Abeokuta, Nigeria (Norma H. Wolff); Work and workshop: the iteration of style and genre in two workshop settings, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon (Till Förster); apprentices and entrepreneurs: the workshop and style uniformity in Sub-Saharan Africa (Sidney Littlefield Kasfir); Coda: Apprentices and entrepreneurs revisited: twenty years of workshop changes, 1987-2007 (Sidney Littlefield Kasfir). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
