"Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to ques ..."
Fashioning Africa Power and the Politics of Dress (African Expressive Cultures) by Jean Marie Allman, PatrickMcnaughton Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34415-1, ISBN: 0-253-34415-8
"Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. To date, few scholars have explored what clothing means in 20th-century Africa and the diaspora. In Fashioning Africa, an international group of anthropologists, historians, and art historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic. From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to So ..."
"Since the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Africa. The volume emphasizes contemporary culture civil and social issues, art, religion, and the political scene and provides an overview of significant themes that bear on Africa's place ..."
"Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to ques ..."
A Bird Dance near Saturday City Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade (African Expressive Cultures) by Patrick R. Mcnaughton Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2008 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21984-8, ISBN: 0-253-21984-1
"In 1978, Patrick McNaughton witnessed a bird dance masquerade in the small town of Dogoduman. He was so affected by this performance that its dazzling artistic power has never left him. As he revisits that very special evening in A Bird Dance near Saturday City, McNaughton carefully considers the components of the performance, its pace, the performers, and what the entire experience means for understandings of Bamana and West African ae ..."
The Mande Blacksmiths(Updated) Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa (Traditional Arts of Africa) by Patrick R. Mcnaughton Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1993 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20798-2, ISBN: 0-253-20798-3
""... finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." -- American Ethnologist"The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading... " -- Choice"The Mande Blacksmith is an important book... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and t ..."
"Every piece of African woodcarving has an embellished surface, whether it is dyed, pigmented, refurbished, or encrusted with sacrificial matter. Surfaces is the first book to present a detailed study of what happens to African wood sculpture from its creation to its ritual use and "retirement." The six essays by distinguished African art historians investigate cultural practices associated with surface decoration, the practitioners resp ..."
A Bird Dance near Saturday City Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade (African Expressive Cultures) by Patrick R. Mcnaughton Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2008 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35148-7, ISBN: 0-253-35148-0
"In 1978, Patrick McNaughton witnessed a bird dance masquerade in the small town of Dogoduman. He was so affected by this performance that its dazzling artistic power has never left him. As he revisits that very special evening in A Bird Dance near Saturday City, McNaughton carefully considers the components of the performance, its pace, the performers, and what the entire experience means for understandings of Bamana and West African ae ..."
The Mande Blacksmiths(1st Edition) Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa (Traditional Arts of) by Patrick R. Mcnaughton, Eds Etal. Hardcover, 241 Pages, Published 1988 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-33683-5, ISBN: 0-253-33683-X
""... finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." —American Ethnologist"The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading... " —Choice"The Mande Blacksmith is an important book... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough... " —African Arts"McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most pr ..."
Remains to Be Seen The Use of Bone, Antler, Horn and Ivory Throughout History and in Contemporary American Art by Mcnaughton Et Al Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1983 by The Center ISBN-13: 978-0-932718-15-0, ISBN: 0-932718-15-9
"During the Depression, Roy Emerson Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section, hired some of the best photographers in the United States-including Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Walcott, John Delano, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein-to record the state of the country during its direst days. While Stryker made many demands on his photographers, he also gave them a great deal ..."
Secret sculptures of Komo(1st Edition) Art and power in Bamana (Bambara) initiation associations (Working papers in the traditional arts) by Patrick R. Mcnaughton Paperback, 55 Pages, Published 1979 by Institute For The Study Of Human Issues ISBN-13: 978-0-89727-004-5, ISBN: 0-89727-004-5
"Many elements converge in the construction of a high-quality art collection, making it a fascinating, intellectual and emotional adventure, a journey of discovery and a labour of love. Formed over the course of thirty years by Udo Horstmann and his wife, the Horstmann collection is rather exceptional inasmuch as it offers a captivating vision of the variety of solutions adopted by black artists over the course of the centuries: nearly 1 ..."