Download or read book Kenya s Art written by Linda Trice and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recycle! Reuse! Make Art! Kenya’s class is on spring vacation and their teacher asked them to write a report about how they spent their time. But vacation is almost over and Kenya hasn't done anything worth noting. A late visit to a museum's recycling exhibit and a walk through her neighborhood with her daddy inspire Kenya to use her old, broken toys and other items to make art with her family. Now she's prepared to teach her whole class how to Recycle! Reuse! Make Art! This warm and engaging companion to Kenya's Song depicts the enthusiasm and creativity of one young girl in a diverse community who engages wholeheartedly with her friends, her environment, and herself.
Download or read book Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya written by Anne-Marie Deisser and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value. Its pre-historic heritage not only tells the story of man's origin and evolution but has also contributed to the understanding of the earth's history: fossils and artefacts spanning over 27 million years have been discovered and conserved by the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Alongside this, the steady rise in the market value of African art has also affected Kenya. Demand for African tribal art has surpassed that for antiquities of Roman, Byzantine, and Egyptian origin, and in African countries currently experiencing conflicts, this activity invariably attracts looters, traffickers and criminal networks. This book brings together essays by heritage experts from different backgrounds, including conservation, heritage management, museum studies, archaeology, environment and social sciences, architecture and landscape, geography, philosophy and economics to explore three key themes: the underlying ethics, practices and legal issues of heritage conservation; the exploration of architectural and urban heritage of Nairobi; and the natural heritage, landscapes and sacred sites in relation to local Kenyan communities and tourism. It thus provides an overview of conservation practices in Kenya from 2000 to 2015 and highlights the role of natural and cultural heritage as a key factor of social-economic development, and as a potential instrument for conflict resolution
Download or read book How to Draw Kenya s Sights and Symbols written by Melody S. Mis and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents step-by-step directions for drawing the national flag, Mount Kenya, Uhuru Monument, and other sights and symbols of Kenya.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Arts of Kenya written by Ernie Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An African Experience written by Simon Combes and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Experience written by Simon Combes and published by . This book was released on 1989-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kenya Art Culture and History written by Emmanuel Alvin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya Art, Culture and History. Kenya continues to occupy a prominent place in the history of humankind. As the home of the ancestry of human race, fossils recovered on the floor and in the sediments of the Rift Valley show that some human species traversed the region as far back as 200 million years ago. Primates were in the region as early as 23 million years ago, apes 18 million, chimpanzees seven million and hominids five million years ago. When the Europeans came to Kenya in the late 1800s, the region did not have any written word. However, the country had documented its past in the rocks that form the hills and mountains; in the strata forming the sides and eroded by water and wind; and in the tools left behind by early humans at their sites of habitation and in fossilized fauna and flora. And as the country celebrates 50 years of independence from colonial rule, it has stamped its mark in the world map and continues to play its rightful role in the comity of nations
Download or read book Vigango written by Ernie Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kenya Art and Culture a History written by Ryan Kelly and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya Art and Culture, a History. The People, Economy, Government and Politics. Today there are around 42 different tribes in Kenya, with varying cultural identities and traditions that have, in some cases, become intertwined over time due to similarities in language and a sharing of the same environment. Visitors to Kenya have the unique opportunity to spend days in the homes of various tribal villages, learning and participating in their daily lives, and even in some cases attending ceremonies. While in the past the development of national parks, in some cases, caused displacement of tribes from traditional grazing areas, today many are employed in the management of conservancies or rangers to protect the wildlife they once kept their cattle safe from
Download or read book The Art of Connection written by Dillon Mahoney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Connection narrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy. Bringing together the studies of globalization, development, art, and communication, the book illuminates the lived experiences of informal economies and shows how traders and small enterprises balance new risks with the mobility afforded by digital technologies. An array of ethnic and generational politics have led to market burnings and witchcraft accusations as Kenya’s crafts industry struggles to adapt to its new connection to the global economy. To mediate the resulting crisis of trust, the Fair Trade sticker and other NGO aesthetics continue to successfully represent a transparent, ethical, and trusting relationship between buyer and producer. Dillon Mahoney shows that by balancing revelation and obfuscation—what is revealed and what is not—Kenyan art traders make their own roles as intermediaries and the exploitative realities of the global economy invisible.
Download or read book Introduction to African Arts of Kenya Zaire and Nigeria written by Fred J. Parrott and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Designing Design written by Kenya Hara and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-25 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon the reader the importance of emptiness in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its application to design, made visible by means of numerous examples from his own work: Hara for instance designed the opening and closing ceremony programs for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games 1998. In 2001, he enrolled as a board member for the Japanese label MUJI and has considerably moulded the identity of this successful corporation as communication and design advisor ever since. Kenya Hara, alongside Naoto Fukasawa one of the leading design personalities in Japan, has also called attention to himself with exhibitions such as Re-Design: The Daily Products of the 21st Century.
Download or read book Kenya Art and Culture a History written by Ryan Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya Art and Culture, a History. The People, Economy, Government and Politics. Today there are around 42 different tribes in Kenya, with varying cultural identities and traditions that have, in some cases, become intertwined over time due to similarities in language and a sharing of the same environment. Visitors to Kenya have the unique opportunity to spend days in the homes of various tribal villages, learning and participating in their daily lives, and even in some cases attending ceremonies. While in the past the development of national parks, in some cases, caused displacement of tribes from traditional grazing areas, today many are employed in the management of conservancies or rangers to protect the wildlife they once kept their cattle safe from
Download or read book The Big Cat Man written by Jonathan Scott and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Cat Man - wildlife autobiography of Jonathan Scott, holiday reads and travel literature, including the BBC's Big Cat Diary, Paramount's Wild Things, and Elephant Diaries. Also included are photographs and illustrations by Jonathan and Angela Scott, plus coverage of the Maasai Mara and Serengeti, Antarctica, and travels to India and Bhutan.
Download or read book World on the Horizon written by Prita Meier and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiauthored book accompanying the World on the Horizon exhibition organized by Krannert Art Museum is the first interdisciplinary study of Swahili visual arts and their historically deep and enduring connections to eastern and central Africa, the port towns of the western Indian Ocean, Europe, and the United States. At once exhibition catalogue and scholarly inquiry, the publication features eighteen essays in a mix of formats - personal reflections, object biographies, as well as more in-depth critical treatments - and includes never before published images of works from the National Museums of Kenya and Bait Al Zubair Museum in Oman. By approaching the east African coast as a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence, these essays offer compelling new perspectives on the situated yet mobile and deeply networked social lives of Swahili objects. Moving between the broader structural relations of political economic change to more intimate narratives through which such change is experienced, the essays throw light on the ways in which the material fabric of the arts structure Swahili people's sense of self and community in an ever-changing world of oceanic and terrestrial movement.
Download or read book Cultural Production and Change in Kenya written by Kimani Njogu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, Culture and Society Vol 1 is the first in a series of books to be published by Twaweza Communications on the relationship between art and society, with special reference to Kenya. It is part of a cultural leadership initiative being undertaken by the organization through a reexamination of the arts as they are produced and studied. This volume brings together important reflections on the arts and is a major step in encouraging dialogue on the relationship between creativity and the human condition in the region. Significantly, it creates a space for university-based academics to engage in dialogue with artists and writers based outside institutions of higher learning. The conversations will bridge the gap between the two domains for knowledge production and enrich creative enterprise in Kenya, in theory and practice. As the essays in this collection show, the present global situation demands a way to conceptualise and theorise an ever growing cultural interconnectedness, sometimes manifested in art; and interconnectedness that draws from a myriad of cultures and experiences. Through the bridges of contact and cultural exchange distant images are mediated and brought closer to us. They are reinterpreted and modified. In the final analysis, culture is shown to be an important aspect of human creativity but separateness and boundedness is contested. Instead, culture is shown to be malleable and fluid. The essays bring in a new freshness to our reading of the creative arts coming out of Kenya.
Download or read book Dateline Kenya written by Joseph Bertiers and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Joseph Bertiers has never set foot outside Kenya, his addiction to current events via television, radio, newspapers, and magazines has fueled a unique style of painting which bridges the gap between "naive" outsider art and the sociopolitical issues of the late 20th century. World leaders, celebrities, and global events are portrayed with a cutting satirical bent in paintings that are rich in both formal beauty and penetrating wit. Essay by Karal Ann Marling, interview with Bertiers by Ernie Wolfe III.
