Waubonsee Community College

Africa explores, 20th century African art, Susan Vogel ; assisted by Ima Ebong ; contributions by Walter E.A. van Beek [and others]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-294) and index

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Susan Vogel ; assisted by Ima Ebong ; contributions by Walter E.A. van Beek [and others]

"New York City's Center for African Art enhances its reputation as one of the nation's premier African art museums with these first-rate exhibition catalogs. The exhibition "Closeup" just completed its three-venue schedule; "Africa Explores" may be seen at the Center through 1991 and then tours to seven major museums into 1993. To Western eyes, African sculpture is unusual, exotic, and challenging. African sculptors are more concerned with surface texture, appearance, and functions of their works. Narrative is seldom depicted. In the narrowly focused Closeup , Thompson's multi-perspective photographs (the duotone images are especially striking) reveal the spectrum of moods that can be embedded in one work. He includes 110 works, the majority from French-speaking West Central Africa. Vogel, executive director of the Center, analyzes the unique geometry inherent in African sculpture. Also included is research information about individual sculptures, taken from the noteworthy collections of Udo Horstmann and an anonymous American collector. The monumental Africa Explores moves from tribal masks and ritual totems to an entirely new and vibrant body of modern sub-Saharan art. Vogel establishes the framework for looking at the multiplicity of 20th-century African artforms by organizing the catalog into five areas: traditional, new functional, urban, international, and extinct. Wide-ranging essays by scholars explore specific instances of these strains. Encyclopedic in scope, the work includes 228 color and 176 black-and-white photos. Africa Explores is the most important publication on modern African art to date. It will long serve as a reference for scholars and as an approachable survey for novices." -- Review in Library Journal by Russell T. Clement, Brigham Young University Library

20th century African art

Tshibumba Kanda -- B. Ilunga -- Chin -- Etale Sukuro -- Cheri Samba -- Magdalene Odundo -- Yamoussoukro -- Ajani -- Boureima Teikoron Diamitani -- S.J. Akpan -- Nana Eln -- Dakar -- Pilipili -- Vuza Ntoko -- Mode Muntu -- Wayis -- Wa Nkulu Nkulu -- Jimoh Buraimoh -- Ouattara -- Kalema -- Oye Agu Agbagana -- F.T. Chew -- Alexander Kosolapov -- Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu -- Twins Seven-Seven -- Trigo Piula -- Uiteix -- Minkoe Minze -- Atesi -- Malangatana Valente Ngwenya -- Iba N'Diaye -- Fode Camara -- Sakai Douglas Camp -- Albert Lubaki -- Tshyela Ntendu -- Koffi Kouakou -- Kiuuthi Mbuno -- Boubacar Coulibaly -- Amadou Seck -- Samba Balde -- Cherie Thiam -- Papa Ibra Tall -- Bacary Dieme -- Mauinga -- Kadjo James Houra -- Ndoki Kitekutu -- Ibou Diouf -- Paul AhyiGerard Santoni -- Basobane Groupe Bogoian -- Pilipili Molongoy -- Akinola Lasekan -- Leandro Mbomio Nsue -- Serigne Ndiaye -- Gora M'Bengue -- Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu -- Moke -- Katenda -- Vuza Ntoko -- S. Rufisque -- Samba Sylla -- Dame Gueye -- Lo Ba -- Sim Simaro -- Lubaki -- NolvudiEtale Sukuro -- Cheri Samba -- Magdalene Odundo