Constructing African art histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire
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Constructing African art histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire
Ashgate, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Cote d'Ivoire is an investigation of the methods employed by art historians who study creative production in Africa. While providing insights into the rich visual arts of the Lagoon Peoples of southeastern Cote d'Ivoire, this study is one of the few attempts by an Africanist to situate local and regional artistic practices in the context of the global art market, and to trace the varied receptions an African art work is given as it leaves a local context and enters an international one. Drawing on her three seasons of fieldwork among Akan populations in Cote d'Ivoire, Monica Blackmun Visona provides a comprehensive account of a major art-producing region of Africa, and explores such topics as gender roles in performance, the role of sculpture in divination, and the interchange of arts and ideas across ethnic boundaries. The book also addresses issues inherent in research practices, such as connoisseurship and participant observation, and examines theoretical positions that have had an impact on the discipline of African art history.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Art history in the lagoons of Cote d'Ivoire
- Encountering art in the lagoons: disciplinary approaches
- Investigating lagoon art: research methodology
- Art, religious belief and healing
- Arts of leadership and arts of prestige
- Age-set festivals as performance
- Lagoon artists in a global context
- Envoi: the role of the Africanist in the discipline of art history
- Bibliography
- Index.
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