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Speaking of objects : African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago / edited by Constantine Petridis ; with contributions by Martha G. Anderson [and 7 others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Art Institute of Chicago, creator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art Institute of Chicago--Catalogs.
- Art Institute of Chicago.
- Art, African--Catalogs.
- Art, African.
- Art--Illinois--Chicago--Catalogs.
- Art.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 x 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2020]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Foreword / James Rondeau
- Acknowledgments / Constantine Petridis
- Note to the reader
- From the object to the field (and back again) : complementary perspectives on African art / Constantine Petridis
- Northern Africa and the Sahel. Cat. 1 Of crests, farmers, and antelopes / Pascal James Imperato ; Cats. 2-16 / Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Pascal James Imperato, and Constantine Petridis
- Coastal West Africa. Cat. 17 Of figures spirits, and shrines / Martha G. Anderson ; Cats. 18-50 / Martha G. Anderson, Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Babatunde Lawal, and Constantine Petridis
- Central Africa. Cat. 51 Of masks, men, and women / Manuel Jordán ; Cats. 52-67 / Manuel Jordán and Constantine Petridis
- Eastern and Southern Africa. Cat. 68 Of pillows, cattle, and curios / Anitra Nettleton
- Cats. 69-75 / Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Anitra Nettleton, Constantine Petridis, and Janet M. Purdy
- "One's head is one's creator" : the interconnectedness of word and image in Yòrùbá art / Babatunde Lawal
- Map
- Works cited
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300254327
- 0300254326
- OCLC:
- 1197772362
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