Earth matters : land as material and metaphor in the arts of Africa /

Earth matters : land as material and metaphor in the arts of Africa / Karen E. Milbourne.

Show other versions (15919)

"Featuring more than 100 extraordinary works of art from 1800 to the present, Earth Matters reveals how African individuals and communities have visually mediated their most poignant relationships with the land--whether it be to earth as a sacred or medicinal material, as something uncovered by...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Exhibition website
Patrons must make an appointment to view Lib Use Only items
Main Author: Milbourne, Karen (Author)
Other title:Land as material and metaphor in the arts of Africa
David H. Tippit Collection.
Format: Book
Language:English
Local Note:Rare Books Collection copy David H. Tippit Collection.
Published: Washington, D.C. : New York, NY : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution ; Monacelli Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1800-2099
Art, African > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Art, African > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art, African > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Land use > Africa > In art > Exhibitions.
Environment (Art) > Exhibitions.
Landscapes in art > Exhibitions.
Earthworks (Art) > Exhibitions.
Art africain > 19e siècle > Expositions.
Art africain > 20e siècle > Expositions.
Art africain > 21e siècle > Expositions.
Paysages dans l'art > Expositions.
Land art > Expositions.
Art, African.
Earthworks (Art)
Environment (Art)
Land use.
Landscapes in art.
Africa > In art > Exhibitions.
Africa.
Afrika.
In art.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The Material Earth
  • Chapter 2. The Power of the Earth
  • The Power of Earth in My Work / Wangechi Mutu
  • Chapter 3. Imagining the Underground
  • Breaking Surface / Clive van den Berg
  • Chapter 4. Strategies of the Surface
  • Where You Looking At? / Allan deSouza
  • Chapter 5. Art as Environmental Action
  • Matter, Eco-Ethics, and Composite Space: Thoughts on My Pictorial Compositions / George Osodi
  • Chapter 6. Earth Works.

Similar Items