Méthodologie des arts plastiques de l’Afrique Noire

Author: Mabiala Mantuba-Ngoma.

For the first time an African scholar speaks out on the art of Black Africa on the basis of new art theories. He analyses African sculptures according to procuct, form, theme, message, usage, observation, intelligibility, time, and space.

Because of its status as an introductive work different methods are discussed in the present book. These are in detail productional, morphological, iconographical-iconological, semiotical, pragmatical, visual, encyclopaedical, topological and historical methods which are applied here.

25 tables and three maps provide illustrative materials for the readers so that they can get a picture of the art in focus – in the truest sense of the word. The mapped sculptures are exhibits belonging to the “Übersee Museum” in Bremen/Germany and the “Gallery Simonis” in Düsseldorf/Germany.

Under these links you will find further studies of African visual and verbal art:

Accompanying material:

• African Styles – Kleidung und Textilien aus Afrika (ISBN 978-3-89645-400-3)
• Afrikanische Frauen und kulturelle Globalisierung / African Women and Cultural Globalization / Femmes africaines et globalisation culturelle (ISBN 978-3-89645-318-1)
• Handelsstoffe (ISBN 978-3-89645-200-9)
• Iwalewa Forum (ISBN 978-3-89645-244-3)
• Kunst aus Zimbabwe – Kunst in Zimbabwe (ISBN 978-3-89645-129-3)
• Kunst–Spiegelungen der Moderne (ISBN 978-3-89645-127-9)
• Texte auf Textilien in Ostafrika (ISBN 978-3-89645-266-5)
• Tingatinga – Märchen und Bilder aus Tansania (ISBN 978-3-89645-308-2)

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