Download or read book Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum written by Kathy Curnow and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This museum guide examines America's oldest collection of Benin art, and one of its least familiar. Ivory, brass, and wooden art from one of the greatest African precolonial states-the only sub-Saharan polity with 500 years of surviving art-are examined through contextual lenses that provide insight into the Edo people's creativity and world view. The guide also considers the collection's specific history and growth, and current plans to repatriate the artworks back to Nigeria's Benin Kingdom. For readers unfamiliar with Benin and its art, this introduces the complexities of the palace, its successive monarchs and chiefs, and interprets metaphorical motifs such as mudfish, leopards, and elephants. Artworks refer to family and court rivalries, as well as the strict court hierarchies that dictated who could use which materials and wear particular regalia. Interactions with the Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries, their impact on trade and luxury goods, and their introduction of Catholicism paint a portrait of a society that absorbed only what they found useful and flourished in both war and peace. Those conversant with Benin and African art will encounter rarities that have not been widely published. Previously unpublished archival material provides insider gossip regarding major collectors and individuals who shaped the field of African art history. The history of the call for restitution of artworks that were looted in the kingdom's 1897 British invasion is considered, as is the Penn Museum's current position regarding their repatriation. Appendices list the kingdom's monarchs, explain how to "read" images on a figurative ivory tusk that once stood on a royal ancestral altar, and guide interpretations of the style of the hundreds of plaques that once decorated the palace. Contextual photos and text references prevent an ahistorical view of this long-lived and fascinating kingdom and its rich cultural history, one that will draw in those familiar and unfamiliar alike"--

Download or read book Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum written by Kathy Curnow and published by University of Pennsylvania Museum. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide examines America's oldest collection of Benin art, and one of its least published. Ivory, brass, and wooden art from one of the greatest African precolonial states--the only sub-Saharan polity with 500 years of surviving art--are examined through contextual lenses that provide insight into the Ẹdo people's creativity and world view. The guide also considers the collection's specific history and growth, and current plans to repatriate the artworks back to Nigeria's Benin Kingdom. For readers unfamiliar with Benin and its art, this introduces the complexities of the palace, its successive monarchs and chiefs, and interprets metaphorical motifs such as mudfish, leopards, and elephants. Artworks refer to family and court rivalries, as well as the strict court hierarchies that dictated who could use which materials and wear particular regalia. Interactions with the Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries, their impact on trade and luxury goods, and their introduction of Catholicism paint a portrait of a society that absorbed only what they found useful and flourished in both war and peace. Original fieldwork illuminates Benin art and culture and previously published archival material provides insight regarding major collectors and individuals who shaped the field of African art history.

Download or read book Traveler s Guide to America s Art written by Jane Norman and published by New York : Meredith Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique handbook fills the need for a comprehensive index to the museums, historic houses, and art collections on exhibit all over the continental United States. In vivid, informative essays, the authors conduct the equivalent of a guided tour, organized by region, state, and locale, that examines the most important paintings, sculpture, and other visual arts of American as well as European, Oriental, and African origin.

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to the USA written by Samantha Cook and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to the USA is your authoritative state-by-state guidebook to this vast and fascinating country. From Mardi Gras in New Orleans to New England in the fall, from the Las Vegas Strip to Yellowstone National Park; the introduction provides a lively overview of the 'things not to miss'. The country's history, culture and people are covered in depth throughout the guide, while clear and accurate maps for every region, state and major city provide the information you need to plan your trip. With detailed practical advice, whether you're looking for great places to eat and drink or inspiring accommodation and the most exciting places to party, you'll find the solution. Count on plenty of expert advice on a wide range of activities, from touring Louisiana's Cajun country to experiencing New York City's nightlife, making The Rough Guide to the USA your ultimate travelling companion. Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to the USA. Now available in epub format.

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Download or read book Loot written by Barnaby Phillips and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the most admired and valuable artworks in the world. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives behind bars’. In a time of huge controversy about the legacy of empire, racial justice and the future of museums, what does the future hold for the Bronzes?

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to the USA written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to the USA is the ultimate guide to all fifty states. Whether you're planning a classic American road-trip, a visit to New England in the Fall, or a west-coast sun and surf holiday, this guide is the perfect companion. Packed with colour maps, itineraries and route suggestions, it will help you discover the best the United States has to offer, from New York's museums and Chicago's skyscrapers to the deserts of the Southwest and vineyards of California. With expert reviews of hotels, restaurants, diners and bars, plus all the information you'll need on city sights and national parks, you'll make the most of your American adventure with The Rough Guide to the USA. Now available in ePub format.

Download or read book Berlitz Pocket Guide Washington D C Travel Guide eBook written by Berlitz Publishing and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington, the seat of power in the US, is an all-American city. From its broad avenues, Southern climate and multiple parks and monuments, it's a city to visit all year round. Be inspired to visit this city that is central to American history with the brand new Berlitz Pocket Guide Washington, a concise, full-color guide to this bustling city that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the best that DC has to offer. Inside Berlitz Pocket Guide Washington: Where To Go takes you from The White House to Capitol Hill and north to Georgetown. Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip, including the Lincoln Memorial, The White House and surrounds, decadent Union Station and the National Museum of American Art and the Portrait Gallery. Perfect Day provides an itinerary for one day in the city. What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from shows to spectator sports and shopping, plus nightlife. Essential information on Washington's culture, including a brief history. Eating Out covers the city's best cuisine. Curated listings of the best hotels and restaurants. A-Z of all the practical information you'll need. About Berlitz: Berlitz draws on years of travel and language expertise to bring you a wide range of travel and language products, including travel guides, maps, phrase books, language-learning courses, dictionaries and kids' language products.

Download or read book Guide to the Literature of Art History 2 written by Max Marmor and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bibliography supplements the greatest of modern art bibliographies, Etta Arntzen and Robert Rainwater's Guide to the literature of art history (ALA, 1980)"--Preface.

Download or read book Dahomey s Royal Architecture written by Lynne Ellsworth Larsen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dahomey’s Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Palace of Dahomey’s relationship to the religious, cultural, and national identity of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1625–1892), colonial Dahomey (1892–1960) and post-colonial Benin (1960–present). The Royal Palace of Dahomey covers more than 108 acres and was surrounded by a wall over two miles long. When the French colonial army arrived in Abomey in 1892, the ruling king set fire to the palace to keep it from falling into enemy hands. Though much of the palace structure was subsequently left to ruin, a portion of it was restored from which the French ruled for a short period. In 1945, the colonial administration transformed part of the palace into a museum, and in 1985 the entire palace was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. This book documents the palace’s physical transformations in relation to its changing purposes and explores how the space maintained religious significance despite change. The palace’s construction, destruction, and restorations demonstrate how architecture can be manipulated and transformed according to the agendas of governments or according to the religious and cultural needs of a populace. The palace functions as a historic record by discussing aspects of documentation, revision, language, and interpretation. Covering almost four centuries of Dahomey’s history, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of African art and architecture, religious studies, west African history, and post-colonial studies.

Download or read book Civil Imagination written by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella Asha Azoulay calls for us to use photographs of political violence, such as the colonial regime in Palestine, to envision the political relationships that made each photograph possible, and to be able to intervene in them. In this way, we can build our capacity for "civil imagination": a way of seeing and imagining ourselves as part of the image rather than only as spectators. The new edition includes a discussion of the legal battles to reclaim the images of the enslaved Papa Renty, held by Harvard University, rejecting the regime of photographs as private property, established by institutions that claim ownership of images seized with violence. "This trenchant, perennially contemporary book valorizes powerful intersubjective relations enabled by photography, relations that exceed the strictures of imperial power. For Azoulay, photography's entangled temporalities enable a transformation of our sense of what persists, just as a collective practice of civil imagination reconstructs our apprehension of those with whom we unevenly share a lifeworld. Azoulay contradistinguishes spectatorship from the radical work of being a companion- a distinction that itself rewrites normative conceptions of the social work of seeing." - Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, author of Dark Mirrors

Download or read book An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art written by Philip John Crosskey Dark and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries written by Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: