An history of the visual arts of Africa - sculpture, painting and architecture; textiles, pottery and other household objects; jewellery, ceremonial and religious dress and body art. The author examines the major influences on African culture and art over the centuries: the civilizations of Egypt and the Mediterranean coast, the spread of Islam, the Bantu migrations, the evolution of the tribal system, the arrival of the Europeans and Christianity and the development of trade within Africa and beyond. He then examines the earliest known art forms, the preshitoric rock art found in a number of regions and the artefacts of the ancient Nubian, Aksumite and Nok cultures, and goes on to consider the development of the visual arts in a number of individual regions ranging from the Sahara to the Cape, from Ethiopia and the Swahili coast in the east to the Niger Delta and Benin in the west.
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The exploration of African arts, with their ethnographical and historical background, is barely as old as this century, while archeological research into the subject is even more recent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cattle herdsmen period, appliqué cloth, memorial posts, raised weals, tribal sculpture, bronze industry, terracotta heads, domestic pottery, terracotta sculpture, equestrian figure, radiocarbon chronology, pottery figures, seated male, court art Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Museum, André Held, British Museum, Great Zimbabwe, Cross River, Museum of Mankind, Werner Forman, New York, West African, Niger Delta, North Africa, Sierra Leone, West Sudanic, Burkina Faso, Ita Yemoo, Museum of Ife Antiquities, Andre Held, Benue River, Golden Stool, Horst Kolo, Lake Nyanza, Leopard's Kopje, Lower Nubia, Pace Gallery, Upper Nile Valley New!
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The exploration of African arts, with their ethnographical and historical background, is barely as old as this century, while archeological research into the subject is even more recent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cattle herdsmen period, appliqué cloth, memorial posts, raised weals, tribal sculpture, bronze industry, terracotta heads, domestic pottery, terracotta sculpture, equestrian figure, radiocarbon chronology, pottery figures, seated male, court art Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Museum, André Held, British Museum, Great Zimbabwe, Cross River, Museum of Mankind, Werner Forman, New York, West African, Niger Delta, North Africa, Sierra Leone, West Sudanic, Burkina Faso, Ita Yemoo, Museum of Ife Antiquities, Andre Held, Benue River, Golden Stool, Horst Kolo, Lake Nyanza, Leopard's Kopje, Lower Nubia, Pace Gallery, Upper Nile Valley New!
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