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Elsbeth Court
SOAS University of London, IFCELS, Emeritus
K. Margaret Trowell was the founder of formal art education in east Africa where she lived and worked between 1927-1957, first in Kenya and then in Uganda where she founded the School of Fine Art at Makerere University and headed the... more
K. Margaret Trowell was the founder of formal art education in east Africa where she lived and worked between 1927-1957, first in Kenya and then in Uganda where she founded the School of Fine Art at Makerere University and headed the Uganda Museum. This article concerns her pedagogy that combined local self-expression and western techniques and her strategy to establish a tertiary-level art school during the colonial period
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... collection of Jean Pigozzi. A selection from it was exhibited as Africa Hoy in Las Palmas, Grand Canary, in 1991; the exhibition was shown as Out of Africa at theSaatchi Gallery in London in 1992. Page 161. CASE STUDY 6 ...
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Early account of the Triangle model international artists' workshop, Zimbabwe, '89; includes Bickle, Gutsa, Pearce, Koloane, Olé, Douglas Camp et al.
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... Her husband Robert's untimely death from ... Started in 1952 by sculptor Oku Ampofo, the initial members were FA Gyampo, a painter and sculptor; JD Okae ,a painter and illustrator; EO Asare, a weaver, JCO Okyere a ...... more
... Her husband Robert's untimely death from ... Started in 1952 by sculptor Oku Ampofo, the initial members were FA Gyampo, a painter and sculptor; JD Okae ,a painter and illustrator; EO Asare, a weaver, JCO Okyere a ... Christiane Falgayrettes and Christiane Owusu-Sarpong. ...
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John Mack: Emil Torday and the art of the Congo 1900–1909. 96 pp. London: British Museum Publications, [1990]. £7.95.Herbert M. Cole: Icons: ideals and power in the art of Africa. 207 pp. Washington D.C. and London: For the National Museum of African Art, by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 198...more
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... VITANA, TAKEN FROM A CARVED BONI COMB FROM THE KENYA NATIONAL MUSEUM COLLECTION. OPPOSITE PAGE: KUCHEZA ("HAVING FUN"), A TWO-COLOR PRINT BY WILSONWASWA. Page 4. r I . . z , : I ...... more
... VITANA, TAKEN FROM A CARVED BONI COMB FROM THE KENYA NATIONAL MUSEUM COLLECTION. OPPOSITE PAGE: KUCHEZA ("HAVING FUN"), A TWO-COLOR PRINT BY WILSONWASWA. Page 4. r I . . z , : I ... Goldwater, Robert. Primitivism in Modern Art. ...
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Three issues ago (African Arts 41 (3): 10-12), we began a discussion of what it means for an artist to engage in an Africa-grounded practice, as opposed to a diasporic one. In this issue, Frank Ugiomoh and Bukky Gbadegesin take on Uche... more
Three issues ago (African Arts 41 (3): 10-12), we began a discussion of what it means for an artist to engage in an Africa-grounded practice, as opposed to a diasporic one. In this issue, Frank Ugiomoh and Bukky Gbadegesin take on Uche Okeke's Natural Synthesis and its metastasized forms before, during, and after the Nigerian civil war. Heather Shirey speaks of the other side of diaspora, in the imagination of Afro-Cuban-American artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. John Peffer reconsiders South Africa's complicated status as a national but also international artworld player. Elsbeth Court considers the relation of a major installation, The Dollar Falls, in Zimbabwe
to the current national tragedy. And nearly
everyone invokes El Anatsui.
to the current national tragedy. And nearly
everyone invokes El Anatsui.
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... Her husband Robert's untimely death from ... Started in 1952 by sculptor Oku Ampofo, the initial members were FA Gyampo, a painter and sculptor; JD Okae ,a painter and illustrator; EO Asare, a weaver, JCO Okyere a ...... more
... Her husband Robert's untimely death from ... Started in 1952 by sculptor Oku Ampofo, the initial members were FA Gyampo, a painter and sculptor; JD Okae ,a painter and illustrator; EO Asare, a weaver, JCO Okyere a ... Christiane Falgayrettes and Christiane Owusu-Sarpong. ...
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The chapter concerns the visual arts components of the africa'95 season in the UK which accelerated the process of non-western curatorial leadership. It is in the volume 'Contemporary Cultures of Display' edited by Emma Barker (Yale:... more
The chapter concerns the visual arts components of the africa'95 season in the UK which accelerated the process of non-western curatorial leadership. It is in the volume 'Contemporary Cultures of Display' edited by Emma Barker (Yale: 1999) commissioned by the Open University for their then course 'Art and its Histories'.
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Early account of the Triangle model international artists' workshop, Zimbabwe, '89; includes Bickle, Gutsa, Pearce, Koloane, Olé, Douglas Camp et al.