Kongo across the waters / edited by Susan Cooksey, Robin Poynor, and Hein Vanhee ; with editorial assistance by Carlee S. Forbes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooksey, Susan, editor.

Poynor, Robin, 1942- editor.

Vanhee, Hein, editor.

Forbes, Carlee S.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Kongo.

Kongo Kingdom--Civilization.

Kongo Kingdom.

United States--Civilization--African influences.

United States.

Civilization.

Art, Kongo--Influence.

African American art--African influences.

African American art.

African diaspora.

Physical Description:

xviii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]

Summary:

Explores the transatlantic connections between Central Africa and North America over the past 500 years in the visual and performing arts of both cultures.

Contents:

Part I: Kongo in Africa

1. The culture of Mbanza Kongo / Linda Heywood and John Thornton

Focus 1. King Pedro VII of Kongo (r. 1923-55)

2. By the sword and the cross: power and faith in the arts of the Christian Kongo / Cécile Fromont

Focus 2. The Capuchin's didactic documents

3. Rock art as a source for the history of the Kongo Kingdom / Geoffroy Heimlich

Focus 3. The Kongo cross across centuries

4. Kongo, North America and the slave trade / Jelmer Vos

Focus 4. Images of the middle passage

5. The Kongo Kingdom and European diplomacy / Linda Heywood and John Thornton

Focus 5. Portraits of Kongo diplomats

Catalogue section 1. Kongo Kingdom art

6. Kongo in the age of empire / Hein Vanhee and Jelmer Vos

Focus 6. Antonio, Mambouc of Nzobe in the 1890s

7. Transatlantic souvenirs: a dialogue of slavery and memory in Kongo-inspired relief sculpture / Nichole N. Bridges

Focus 7. Depicting the slave trade

Catalogue section 2. Trade and chiefs in the nineteenth century

8. Renewal and reinterpretation in Kongo religion / John M. Janzen

9. On Nsambi pluriarcs / Rémy Jadinon

Focus 8. Praetorius displays Kongo instruments, 1619

Catalogue section 3. Rites of passage/musical instruments

10. Meaning and aesthetics in Kongo art / Wyatt MacGaffey

Focus 9. The Master of Kasadi

11. A touch of exoticism: "European fashion" in Kongo / Julien Volper

Focus 10. The Land of the Dead

Catalogue section 4. Protection and healing/commemorating the dead/traditional forms and individual creativity

Part II: Kongo in the Americas

12. Kongo and the archaeology of early African America / Christopher C. Fennell

Focus 11. Crossing the South

13. West Central African spirit practices in Annapolis, Maryland / Kathryn H. Deeley, Stefan F. Woehlke, Mark P. Leone, and Matthew Cochran

Catalogue section 5. Kongo in Early America

14. Africanisms in American English: critical notes on sources and methodology / Jacky Maniacky

15. Kongo cuisine and the middle passage in terms of peanuts / Birgit Ricquier

16. Africa is what you make it: Kongo in African American folk arts / Jason Young

Focus 12. Kongo ideas and aesthetics in African American ceramics

17. The Kongo connection: Central African baskets and their American kin / Dale Rosengarten

Focus 13. Continuing the legacy of Lowcountry coiled baskets

18. Kongo music and dance at New Orleans's Congo square / Freddi Williams Evans

Focus 14. Remembering Congo Square

19. Nineteenth-century Americans shed light on Kongo / Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi

Focus 15. Kongo in the engravings of Pieter van Der Aa

20. "Seeing Kongo": a lens on African American landscapes / Grey Gundaker

Focus 16. Kongo afterlife in Florida

21. From Tidewater to Tampa: yard activation in the Kongo-Atlantic tradition / Kellim Brown

Catalogue section 6. Kongo resonance in African American cultures

Part III: Kongo in contemporary art

22. Kongo inspiration in contemporary world art / Susan Cooksey and Robin Poynor

Focus 17. Kongo memory in the Afro-Atlantic

23. Kongo squared: the art of Renée Stout / Michael D. Harris

24. Minkisi and Dikenga in the art of Radcliffe Bailey: multiplied exponentially / Carol Thompson

25. Kongo resonance in the paintings of Edouard Duval-Carrié / Donald Cosentino

26. José Bedia: Crossing the waters / Judith Bettelheim

Catalogue section 7. Kongo inspiration in contemporary art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-440) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780813049151

0813049156

9780813049458

0813049458

OCLC:

830946965