Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Author : National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN :
Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Author : National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
The National Museum of African Art began as a private educational institution in 1964 and became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1979. This volume includes highlights from the museum's holdings of traditional African art from throughout the continent, although the majority of works originated in sub-Saharan Africa. The 150 objects presented include sculpted masks and figures, regalia, items of personal adornment, textiles, furniture, and household objects. Each entry provides a discussion about the object's meaning and use and includes provenance and publication history. Fully illustrated in color, the handbook also includes maps, an extensive bibliography, and an introduction by Roy Sieber, America's foremost authority on traditional African art.
UNESCO Art Collection Selected works
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9231004743
Book Description
Selected Works from the Snite Museum of Art, the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
Author : Snite Museum of Art
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Author : Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 158834570X
Book Description
This souvenir book showcases some of the most influential and important treasures of the National Museum of African American History and Culture's collections. These include a hymn book owned by Harriet Tubman; ankle shackles used to restrain enslaved people on ships during the Middle Passage; a dress that Rosa Parks was making shortly before she was arrested; a vintage, open-cockpit Tuskegee Airmen trainer plane; Muhammad Ali's headgear; an 1835 Bill of Sale enslaving a young girl named Polly; and Chuck Berry's Cadillac. These objects tell us the full story of African American history, of triumphs and tragedies and highs and lows. This book, like the museum it represents, uses artifacts of African American history and culture as a lens into what it means to be an American.
Women Artists
Author : Nancy Heller
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
This beautifully designed volume is an accessible, comprehensive treasure that spans art history from the Renaissance to the present, featuring eighty-six women artists from around the world. The book is divided into seven sections representing chronological and regional groupings. Each section contains an introductory essay that places the works in historical context to provide an overview of the social and political forces that shaped the eras and regions in which the works were created. Also included is a section on artists' books.
Speaking of Objects
Author : Constantine Petridis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300254326
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago’s extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection, this stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by leading art historians and anthropologists attend closely to the meanings and materials of the works themselves in addition to fleshing out original contexts. These experts also underscore the ways in which provenance and collection history are important to understanding how we view such objects today. Celebrating the Art Institute’s collection of traditional African art as one of the oldest and most diverse in the United States, this is a fresh and engaging look at current research into the arts of Africa as well as the potential of future scholarship.
Genesis
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588390748
Book Description
The seventy-five masterpieces presented here, drawn from public and private American collections, are among the most celebrated icons of African art, works that are superb artistic creations as well as expressions of a society's most profound conceptions about its beginnings. All are reproduced in color and are accompanied by entries that illuminate the distinctive cultural contexts that inspired their creation and informed their appreciation."--BOOK JACKET.
The Kinsey Collection
Author : Khalil B. Kinsey ($e writer of added commentary)
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2011
Category : African American art
ISBN : 9780982622537
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2002: Justification of the budget estimates
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher :
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : United States
ISBN :
