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Narrative Wisdom and African Arts explores how historical and contemporary African arts make visible narratives rooted in collective and individual memory and knowledge. Historical works made by artists across sub-Saharan Africa during the thirteenth to twentieth centuries dialogue with contemporary works by African artists working around the globe.
This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of intersections between African arts and narrative across expansive genres, cultures, periods, and contexts of patronage. More than two hundred color images explore an extensive array of media including sculpture in wood, ivory, metal, textiles, works on paper, photography, painting, and time-based media works. Acknowledging intersections between certain historical arts and oral traditions, Nichole N. Bridges surveys assorted visual modes and motives of arts that facilitate, document, reinforce, or critique narratives concerning the legitimacy of leaders, memory of place, prescriptions for healing and destiny, and enduring ancestral wisdoms.
Contents
African Art and Oral Tradition: Intro
Nichole Bridges
Leadership Arts Shaping Narrative
Nichole Bridges
Ties that Bind: Blending Contemporary Art and Historical African Art
Smooth Nzewi interview of Emeka Ogboh
Narrative Resonance through the Centuries: Esigie's Youthful Challenges on Benin's Throne
Kathryn Curnow
Artists from Abomey, artworks from Dahomey: from language to image
Gaelle Beaujean
Yoruba doors
Abayomi Ola
Divination as Narrative: The Role of Artworks in Oracular Discourse
Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers
Speaking Art: Revisiting the Verbal-visual Nexus in Akan and Ghanaian Art Studies
Nii Quarcoopome
Oral Traditions in African cultures
Jacky Maniacky
Land/Ecology Memory
Elyse Mack
Love- Let Me Count the Ways
Elyse Mack
