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Puppets and Masks
Category : AFRICA
Author : N. Rump
ISBN : 0871922983
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Description : Focuses on conducting "Storytelling Arts" programs with children 4 to 10 years old, and is suitable for educators, libraries, scouting groups, etc. Illustrated with b/w photorealistic line drawings, the puppet and mask projects in this book are all constructed using everyday materials in a big way. Paper plates, paper bags, cloth, and cardboard are transformed into large parade-oriented and theatrical puppets, including an elephant, a dragon, a lion, a giraffe, and even an "Overbearing Ogre." The chapter on "Scenery in Motion" shows how youngsters can participate as active scenery in plays, whether as a "Wandering Mountain," or a "Tumultuous Thundercloud," to name a few. This book is great for anyone working with children and theater, and would be very helpful to teachers directing a grade school play; but the seasoned puppeteer or storyteller would do well to look elsewhere.
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Chokwe: Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples
Category : AFRICA
Author : Manuel Jordan, Gary Van Wyk, Marie Louise Bastin, Gary N. Van Wyk
ISBN : 3791319973
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Description : Magnificently loaded with elegant plates of ceremonial and tribal objects from the Chokwe tribe and others in Angola, this exhibition catalog accompanies a show originating at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama; editor Jord n, who spent more than two years with the Chokwe and related tribes, is the museum's curator. The objects are mostly carved wood, but their polished, stylized vision of people and nature and the variety and especially the depth of feeling in masks raise them far above craft. The pieces are shown alone, as in a museum exhibit, with art stressed more than anthropology. To remedy this, seven scholarly articles by authorities on the Chokwe appear throughout, along with photos of native life. While this puts into context objects like whistles, thrones, and the intriguing divination baskets full of tiny magical charms, it has a somewhat choppy effect. One of a series of books on African art by Prestel (e.g., African Art from the Han Corey Collection, LJ 6/15/98 ), this covers a seldom-visited area rich in heritage. For larger art-oriented and college libraries.
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African Art
Category : AFRICA
Author : Miklos Szalay
ISBN : 3791319043
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Description : Han Coray (1880-1974) was one of the first and most important European collectors of African art. His extensive collection was procured by the Museum for Ethnology in Zurich in 1940 and is one of the highest quality collections in Europe. "African Art: The Han Coray Collection 1916-1928" contains a selection of approximately 200 of the most impressive objects presented in beautiful illustrations and accompanied by informative texts. Featured are not only sculptures and wooden masks, but also ivories, textiles and works in metal. The art of many regions is represented here, with a special focus on that of Central Africa. Coray's African collection was a product of his interest in art, not in anthropology, and it was in fact artists, art lovers and art historians with whom he associated. This explains and justifies the predominance of contributors from the world of art in this volume, including commentaries and essays by Georg Baselitz, Daniel Spoerri and Harald Szeemann. Anthropological contributions discuss the problem of universal visual experience and address the aesthetics of traditional African art.
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