Banco : adobe mosques of the Inner Niger Delta
著者
書誌事項
Banco : adobe mosques of the Inner Niger Delta
(Imago mundi, 4)
5 continents, c2003
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
内容説明・目次
内容説明
As the Bechers - the famous German photographers - have made us discover the morphology and powerful beauty of 19th and 20th century industrial archeology, the photographs of Sebastian Schutyser reveal a neglected African architectural heritage: village adobe mosques in Mali. His black and white photographs (beautifully reproduced in duotone) emphasize a plastic language now extremely rare: an artistic fusion of architecture and sculpture. Is it architecture with sculptural qualities? Or is it rather architectonical sculpture? We no longer know; our mind and our senses are disconcerted by the cultural exception of this special creative mixture. Yet, at the origin of each of these creations we won't find a sculptor or an architect: only village craftsmen; master artisans who have updated an ancestral skill of molding raw earth. Indeed, it is not the expression of a bygone popular culture: the majority of these mosques have been built or altered in the 20th century; thus, they simultaneously belong to a living tradition and to modernity. These images exalt the strength and beauty of a language that eludes globalization.
They emphasize the grain and substance of the clay--smoothed by hand or cracked by erosion. They exacerbate the reassuring solidity of the masonry, the sensuality of the textures and, at times, the eroticism of the shapes. The methodological approach of the photographer shows a regional architectural typology unitary yet very diverse. The book includes a photographic appendix which documents all the principal adobe mosques of the Inner Niger Delta (520 of them) with the name of the villages and geographical coordinates.
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