Title
Linked to Online Catalog Record |
Call Number |
Summary |
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African Art
BBC/RM Associates Co-Production; written
and directed by Aminatta Forna. Chicago : Public Media Home Vision,
1995. |
N7380 .A35 1995 |
African Art introduces noted
experts who explain the importance of reappraising African Art within its
own cultural context. Then local Malian inhabitants in the Dogon, a Bamana
village, and the walled city of Djenne comment on the function of art and
the role of the artist in their society. |
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Portrait of an artist : Elimo
Njau, the antelope-man
/ URTNA Programme Exchange Center, Nairobi,
Kenya ; producer/director, Lyombe Eko. |
N7397.6.T343 N538
1992 |
A portrait of East Africa's
best-known artist. The video seeks to illustrate Elimo Njau's role as artist
in enabling Africans to return to their ancestral culture. "The African
views life as a proverb whose meaning lies in an unraveling of its
symbols."--FFH catalog. |
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Talking stones:
Granada Television ; produced and directed by Tony Bulley. |
NB1096.6.R5 T24 1992
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"Given a place to exhibit,
dissuaded from producing 'airport' art and encouraged instead to speak to
their ancestors, kept at a distance from the commercializers and Coca
Colarizers of art, members of the Shona tribe and itinerant workers from
every part of southern Africa have taken to stone sculpture as naturally as
to traditional rhythms."--container. |
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Under the African sun : a tribute
to the Black artists of South Africa
/ a Bop-Broadcasting International Production ; produced by the Right
Picture Corporation ; scripted and directed by Gerhard Meyer. |
N7392 .U55 1993 |
Program focuses on the Black
artists of South Africa, and how their art has been influenced by the
country's social and political struggles, especially apartheid. 7
volumes + guide |
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Yinka Shonibare |
N6797.S534 A35 2005 |
"Yinka Shonibare is a painter, photographer and installation artist,
whose art is influenced by both the culture of Nigeria, where he grew
up, and Britain, where he studied and now lives. He has exhibited
widely all over the world, and this film profile includes exhibitions
filmed in London, Rotterdam and Stockholm. His paintings and his
sculptural illustrations make extensive use of dyed fabrics, which
became popular in West Africa after independence. But many of these
textiles betray Indonesian influences, are manufatured in Holland and
are purchased by the artist in Brixton in south London. The
complexities of nationality and identity, of history and ethnicity,
post-colonialism and today's global economy, form the intellectual and
aesthetic arena in which Shonibare works. His works have a strongly
contemporary feel, but at the same time they engage with traditions and
masterworks of western art history. The results are witty and playful,
sensuous and poetic."--Container. |