Arts of global Africa : the Newark Museum collection /

Arts of global Africa : the Newark Museum collection / edited by Christa Clarke ; essays by Cynthia Becker, Christa Clarke, Henry John Drewal, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Victoria L. Rovine.

"The Newark Museum has been at the forefront of American art museums in its representation of the arts of Africa since 1917. Newark's collection is notable for its embrace of the entire continent and its diaspora as well as for the breadth of artistic representation and inclusion of histor...

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Corporate Author: Newark Museum (Author)
Other Authors: Clarke, Christa (Editor, Contributor), Becker, Cynthia J., 1965- (Contributor), Drewal, Henry John (Contributor), Okeke-Agulu, Chika (Contributor), Rovine, Victoria (Contributor), Barriault, Anne B., 1952- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark, New Jersey : Newark Museum, [2017]
Subjects:
Newark Museum > Catalogs.
Newark Museum.
Art, African > Catalogs.
Art > New Jersey > Newark > Catalogs.
Art.
Art, African.
New Jersey > Newark.
Catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Steven Kern
  • Preface / Christa Clarke
  • From ethnology to the arts of global Africa : a century of collecting at the Newark Museum / Christa Clarke
  • Catalogue numbers 1-9
  • From ostrich plumes to carved calabashes : visual expressions of trans-Saharan mobility and trade at the Newark Museum / Cynthia Becker
  • Catalogue numbers 10-23
  • The heart of a collection : African textiles at the Newark Museum / Victoria L. Rovine
  • Catalogue numbers 24-54
  • Àṣẹ and the senses in understandings of Yorùbá arts and culture / Henry John Drewal
  • Catalogue numbers 55-71
  • Modern and contemporary African art in the Newark Museum / Chika Okeke-Agulu
  • Catalogue numbers 72-100.

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