Visual cultures of Africa
Münster; New York:
Waxmann
(2022), 255 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-3-8309-4523-9 (print); 978-3-8309-9523-4 (ebook)
CC BY-NC-SA
"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expressions of their fears, hopes, and resolutions for centuries." (Preface)
Contents
VISUAL CULTURES IN AFRICA: SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, PRESERVATION AND TRANSFER AS PRAXIS
Stimulating visual cultural literacy. Akan symbolic forms in perspective / Ebenezer Kwabena Acquah and Isaac Opoku-Mensah, 19
Socio-cultural aspects of traditional pottery production among Jonyuol Nyalo women group, Kisumu, Kenya / Jane Otieno, 27
How Ber Neno creations in the Jua Kali sector use reflective practice for apprenticeship in product design / Mary Clare Kidenda, 35
The visible and the invisible in the visual culture of the Ghana Dance Ensemble. Towards mimetic empathy / Rashida Resario, 49
Digitising Lawino. Creating an expressive embodied conversational agent based on Okot p'Biteks' Song of Lawino / Melisa Achoko Allela and Odoch Pido, 61
From "recycling art" to "reverse engineering". Skill research in the Ethnographic Museum / Alexis Malefakis, 71
VISUAL CULTURES OF AFRICA: COLLECTIONS, MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS FROM CONSERVATION TO CONVERSATION
"Fetish figures" (minkisi) from Central Africa and Catholic holy figures from Europe / Stefan Eisenhofer, 83
Émigrés and African art in England / Mark Evans, 95
Visualizing the Kenyan collections in Western museums. An intercontinental dialogue / Njeri Gachihi, Frauke Gathof, Clara Himmelheber, Lydia Nafula, Leonie Neumann, Philemon Nyamanga, and Juma Ondeng', 109
What about the "Castles" in Ghana? Material relics of colonialism and the slave trade: a disturbing and challenging visual legacy of three continents / Bea Lundt, 119
Concrete Limbo. A trans-continental dialogue on space and responsibility / Benjamin Merten, 131
AFRICAN VISUAL EXPRESSION IN MATERIALS AND MEDIA APPROPRIATED FROM ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WEST
The shoes on my feet. A visual culture of footwear in Africa / Esther Kute and Odoch Pido, 145
Book cover design and the visual culture of land and ancestors. The case of Botlale Tema's Welgeval, Pilanesberg, South Africa / Lize Kriel, 157
The film Softie and the Kenyan imaginary / Lydia Muthuma and Fred Mbogo, 167
The right to be seen and to look. Selfies # FeesMustFall and # endSARS / Amanda du Preez, 175
CONTEMPORARY ART: AFRICAN PRAXIS AS CONVERSATION WITH ITS PAST AND WITH THE WORLD
In-Between. A conversation between Sokari Douglas Camp and Ernst Wagner / Ernst Wagner and Sokari Douglas Camp, 187
Strategies of co-liberation and belonging in the work of South African artists Titus Matiyane and Candice Breitz / Runette Kruger, 195
Breaking traditional rules. Artmaking practices of Muelwa Noria Mabasa and Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi / Avitha Sooful, 203
Visual culture and conflicts of representation in contemporary art in Cameroon / Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako, 213
Africanisation of the European - vulnerability and de-colonisation / Angelika Boeck, 223
Reading South African ceramics as narratives of entanglement and constructed alterity / Ronnie Watt, 237
Stimulating visual cultural literacy. Akan symbolic forms in perspective / Ebenezer Kwabena Acquah and Isaac Opoku-Mensah, 19
Socio-cultural aspects of traditional pottery production among Jonyuol Nyalo women group, Kisumu, Kenya / Jane Otieno, 27
How Ber Neno creations in the Jua Kali sector use reflective practice for apprenticeship in product design / Mary Clare Kidenda, 35
The visible and the invisible in the visual culture of the Ghana Dance Ensemble. Towards mimetic empathy / Rashida Resario, 49
Digitising Lawino. Creating an expressive embodied conversational agent based on Okot p'Biteks' Song of Lawino / Melisa Achoko Allela and Odoch Pido, 61
From "recycling art" to "reverse engineering". Skill research in the Ethnographic Museum / Alexis Malefakis, 71
VISUAL CULTURES OF AFRICA: COLLECTIONS, MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS FROM CONSERVATION TO CONVERSATION
"Fetish figures" (minkisi) from Central Africa and Catholic holy figures from Europe / Stefan Eisenhofer, 83
Émigrés and African art in England / Mark Evans, 95
Visualizing the Kenyan collections in Western museums. An intercontinental dialogue / Njeri Gachihi, Frauke Gathof, Clara Himmelheber, Lydia Nafula, Leonie Neumann, Philemon Nyamanga, and Juma Ondeng', 109
What about the "Castles" in Ghana? Material relics of colonialism and the slave trade: a disturbing and challenging visual legacy of three continents / Bea Lundt, 119
Concrete Limbo. A trans-continental dialogue on space and responsibility / Benjamin Merten, 131
AFRICAN VISUAL EXPRESSION IN MATERIALS AND MEDIA APPROPRIATED FROM ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WEST
The shoes on my feet. A visual culture of footwear in Africa / Esther Kute and Odoch Pido, 145
Book cover design and the visual culture of land and ancestors. The case of Botlale Tema's Welgeval, Pilanesberg, South Africa / Lize Kriel, 157
The film Softie and the Kenyan imaginary / Lydia Muthuma and Fred Mbogo, 167
The right to be seen and to look. Selfies # FeesMustFall and # endSARS / Amanda du Preez, 175
CONTEMPORARY ART: AFRICAN PRAXIS AS CONVERSATION WITH ITS PAST AND WITH THE WORLD
In-Between. A conversation between Sokari Douglas Camp and Ernst Wagner / Ernst Wagner and Sokari Douglas Camp, 187
Strategies of co-liberation and belonging in the work of South African artists Titus Matiyane and Candice Breitz / Runette Kruger, 195
Breaking traditional rules. Artmaking practices of Muelwa Noria Mabasa and Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi / Avitha Sooful, 203
Visual culture and conflicts of representation in contemporary art in Cameroon / Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako, 213
Africanisation of the European - vulnerability and de-colonisation / Angelika Boeck, 223
Reading South African ceramics as narratives of entanglement and constructed alterity / Ronnie Watt, 237
