Encyclopedia

Avner Shakarov

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Having spent a good many years as a researcher of African art, I understand that education is of critical importance. This Encyclopedia is designed to bring benefits of knowledge to students, artists, collectors and for all lovers of African traditional art and culture. Avner Shakarov introduces African art in the context of the peoples who created it. Students and artists will find this Encyclopedia: Art of Africa as a fresh handbook, thought-provoking and a good deal more scholarly than most other writings on African art. African art has taken its place among the great art traditions of the world. It was collected as souvenirs and curios by European travelers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Later, a great deal was written about its influence on Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and other western artists. This book is well researched and studied in the rich heritage of black Africa through its most distinctive form, sculpture, and covers the entire continent. The book contains 95 images of African art, 30 tribal and village photos, 16 drawings and 5 maps to help locate geographically the peoples who created the works of art.

Sujets

• África
• History of Africa
• Africa

Informations

• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Date de parution: 28 février 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645369615
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

Encyclopedia
Art of Africa Volume 1
Avner Shakarov and Lyubov Senatorova
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-02-28
Encyclopedia About the Author Copyright Information © Acknowledgment Purpose of This Book Introducing Africa Political Map of Africa Meaning and Function of African Art African Art Africa: The Rock Art of a Continent Egypt Ethiopia Tanzania South Africa The Royal Art of Africa Gold, Brass and Bronze Casting in African Art African Life Force at the Anvil Western Sudan and West Africa The Kurumba Poro and Sande Secret Societies Sketch Map of Western and Central Africa Ritual Masks Dogon Dogon Masks The Bamana Bamana Masks Chiwara Komo Society The N'domo Society Mask Marka Masks Mossi Masks Burkina Faso Karanga Mask Bwa Butterfly Mask Bobo The Senufo Kpelie Masks Poniugo Helmet Mask Korobla (Korubla) Masks Degele Helmet Mask Baga Banda Mask Baga Nimba Mask Nimba Mask Landuman Mask Nalu Mask The Toma The Kuranko Ligbi Guro Mask The Baule Kplekple Mask Baule, Goli Society Kpele Mask The Baule Yaure Dan People The Deangle Masks Bugle Mask Dan Diviners Mask Dan-Ngere The Ngere Mask Passport Masks Dan Gere Mask Bete Fang Society Masks Ngontang Fang Mask The Yoruba Yoruba Masks Yoruba Diviners Mask The Ekoi Ogoni Mask The Ibo The Ibibio The Mama Grebo Tyler Green Modern Art Notes The Congo The Kwele The Songye Songye Masks Luba Masks The Hemba The Pende The Lega The Kuba The Chokwe The Lwalwa The Ngombe Map in and near Nigeria Ritual Tribal Figures Ancestor Figures with Upraised Arms Dogon Mother and Child Figure Dogon Ancestral Figure, Horse and Rider Musical Instruments Dogon Granary Door Lock Dogon, Heddle Pulley Looms Bamana Statuettes Bamana Door Lock Lobi Senufo Guinea Mende Temne The Kisi Dan The Baule Baule Weaving Pulley Baule Mouse Oracles Ashanti Akuaba The Akuaba Doll The Mambila Blacksmith Bellows The Kota Congo The Lega The Bembe The Pende Chokwe Chokwe Pipes Chokwe Combs The Luba The Hemba Kongo Fetishes Nkondi Fetishes The Songye The Yaka Teke Kuba Kuba Cup Mangbetu Ritual Neckrests or Headrests Dictionary Notes Bibliography Map of African Tribes and Zones of Rock Art Index
About the Author

Avner Shakarov was born in the former Soviet Union and studied mechanical engineering in Moscow, Russia. He studied African art in West and Central Africa as an independent scholar in the 1960s and 1990 in Ivory Coast. During student vacations, he traveled in Africa and lived and learned on the premises where the art was born. He has been a collector of African art since 1962. In the early 1970s, he left the Soviet Union to settle in Western Europe. Later, he moved to the U.S. and since then has been living there. He and his wife, Lyubov, have shared an interest in African art. Since retiring from engineering, he has devoted his time, together with his wife, to writing in this field; they are the authors of numerous books on the world art of Africa.
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Avner Shakarov and Lyubov Senatorova (2019)
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Shakarov, Avner and Senatorova, Lyubov
Encyclopedia: Art of Africa Volume 1
ISBN 9781641823869 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781641823876 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781645369615 (E-Book)
The main category of the book — History / Africa / General
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Acknowledgment
We would like to express our gratitude to all the people who made this book possible through their help and encouragement. A great many people also participated in the technical aspects of this publication. This publication owes much to the skills and talent of my wife, Lyubov Senatorova, for the layout images in the book. She was extremely helpful in smoothing out difficulties during the various phases of this work; without her great patience and support, the work of writing this book would not have been possible. We are especially grateful to, at present deceased, Russian artists M.A. Borodkin and P.M. Korolkova, who gave so willingly, some while ago, their most valuable time for drawing parts of the images of the works and also for drawing the map of African tribes and the zones of African rock art on this map. We also thank Austin Macauley Publishers for their insightful reading of the manuscript and making necessary corrections to meet our expectations.
In the end, our appreciation must go to the unknown artists of Africa who, by their creations shown here, have revealed to us a full measure of their incomparable world.
Purpose of This Book
The purpose of this book is to provide principles of ethnology in order to offer the reader a potentially greater depth of feeling for the beauty, power, and delicacy of certain aspects of African art. This publication is designed to bring the benefits of knowledge to students who are engaged in studying the mechanisms of African arts, with the aim of making them useful and respectable members of society. Most books on African art derive their images from the private collections and museums around the world. They are educational and beautiful. Today, it is important for any student of African art to view all objects of material culture that comprise what we call African art. It is the social context of an object that provides the framework necessary for understanding its meaning and function.
The majority of books and articles written on the art of Black Africa have been concerned with the traditional tribal arts of the 19 th and early 20 th centuries. The importance and quality of traditional African art belongs to the pre-colonial or the colonial periods. This publication of this book gives continuity of the study of the traditional and the colonial arts and will serve as a reference handbook for students, artists, collectors, dealers, museums of African art, and to all African art lovers. Students and artists will find this book very interesting for study as well for the history of religion and African art and culture.
While it is hoped that this book will help increase the knowledge other books focus more completely on, the context of the African art and museum exhibits are also excellent ways to deepen the understanding of the sculptures’ function. Our purpose also is to try what is at least a new way of looking at African art, which we hope may be helpful to the wide public, with the idea of presenting a handbook that would have both popular and reference value to whom the book is addressed.
We have chosen, from among the pieces readily available to us, those which seemed most relevant to our purpose: the identification of different types of sculptural forms in African art. At the same time, we have tried to confine our choice so far as possible to pieces which are artistically pleasing. And any reader is welcome to use our book as a museum without walls, in which the works have been hung in what we intend to be artistic sympathy with each other. in the first place, traditional sculpture and we are not concerned here with contemporary African art, which for all its merits is an extension of European art by a kind of voluntary cultural colonialism and is almost confined to the great basins of the Niger and Congo rivers—which is to say, to an area bounded on the north and south by the Sahara and Kalahari deserts and on the east and west by the African Great Lakes and the Atlantic ocean.
Introducing Africa
Africa is one of the second largest continents, one-fifth the world’s total land area, and may be divided into three major regions: the northern plateau, the central and southern plateau, and the Eastern Highlands. The central and southern plateau include West, Central, and South Africa. They contain several major landmarks, notably the Congo Basin and the Kalahari Desert. The Eastern Highlands lie near the east coast, extending from Red Sea in the south to the Zambezi.
Africa is very rich in mineral resources, possessing most of the known minerals of the world; many of which are found in significant quantities. Africa has some of the world’s largest reserves of gold, diamonds, platinum, copper, and iron.
The Sahara is a vast barrier between the people of North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. In the northern portion of the continent, including the Sahara, Caucasoid peoples, mainly Berbers and Arabs, predominate. South of the Sahara, Negroid peoples, constituting some two-thirds of Africa’s population, predominate. Pockets of Khoisan peoples, the San Bushmen, and Khoekhoe (Hottentots) are located in South Africa. The Bushmen are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, where they have lived for at least 20,000 years. Their home is in the vast expanse of the Kalahari Desert. The Pygmies are concentrated in the Congo Basin and in Tanzania, scattered through Africa, but primarily concentrated in South Africa. There are many different Pygmy people, for example, the Bambini, the Batwa, the Bayaka, and the Bagyeli (Ba means man, who live scattered over a huge area in central and western Africa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congo Brazzaville, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Bu