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An Afro-Portuguese ivory from Ksar es-Seghir, Morocco
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 822-824
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Author:
Afonso, Luís Urbano (Afonso, Luís Urbano)
Author:
Gomes, Mário Varela (Gomes, Mário Varela)
Subjects
dates:
Sixteenth-century
media:
Ivories
places:
Morocco / Portugal / Benin / Africa
subjects:
African sculpture / African / Portuguese / Carvings / Ivories / Spoons / Saltcellars / Oliphants / Forks / Pyxes
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Fragments of a Bini-Portuguese spoon or fork. 1525–50. Ivory, length c.7.6 cm. (From C. Redman: Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life, Orlando 1986, p.130).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Technical drawing based on Fig.1. (J. Gonçalves).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, length 26 cm. (Welt Museum, Vienna).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, 22 cm long. (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris).
Book Review
The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, by Cécile Fromont
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 743
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
places:
Congo / Gabon
places:
Africa / Angola
subjects:
Visual culture / Christian iconography / African / Colonial / Portuguese
Illustrations
Attributed works:
41. Portrait of a Kongo Ambassador to Recife, Brazil, by Albert Eckhout. c.1637-44 (Libri Picturati A 34, fol.1; Jagiellonian Library, Kraków)
Book Review
Embodiments. Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture, C. Hellmich and M. Jordán, eds.
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 044
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Author:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
de Young Museum, San Francisco, United States
places:
Nigeria
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Sculpture / African / Nigerian / Figurative art
subjects:
Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cultural history
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
52. Mother and child. Nineteenth century. Photograph taken in 1969 showing the sculpture with her drummer in the village of Eloyi (Afo), Nigeria (Richard H. Scheller Collection, California; photograph by Anna Craven, courtesy National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria).
Book Review
Senufo Unbound. Dynamics of art and identity in West Africa, S.E. Gagliardi
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 044
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
places:
Ivory Coast / Ghana
subjects:
Art / Art history / African / Wood sculpture / Exhibitions / Art objects / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cultural history
subjects:
Ghanaian / Mali School
Book Review
Matisse’s Sculpture. The Pinup and the Primitive, E. McBreen
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 861-862
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Reviewer:
Watkins, Nicholas (Watkins, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Matisse, Henri
subjects:
French sculpture / Visual sources / Influence / African
Publication Received
Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present. Edited by Markus Brüderlin.
06/2014 | 1335 | 156
Pages: 401
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Reviewer:
Mackrell, Alice (Mackrell, Alice)
Subjects
artists:
Klimt, Gustav
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
subjects:
Art theory / Artists / Textiles / Design / Essays / Exhibition catalogues / Fashion / Costume / Paintings
subjects:
Nabis (movement) / Bauhaus / Feminism / Avant-garde / Latin American / African / Chinese / Japanese
Book Review
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 421
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Reviewer:
Adamson, Glenn (Adamson, Glenn)
Subjects
artists:
Cardew, Michael
artists:
Kwali, Ladi
subjects:
Biographies / Ceramicists / British / Ceramics / Pottery
subjects:
African
Illustrations
Attributed works:
70. Baking dish, by Michael Cardew (University of Aberystwyth; photographed by Stephen Brayne)
Book Review
African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400–1900
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 746-747
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Reviewer:
McLeod, M. D. (McLeod, M. D.)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1899
places:
Africa / Ghana
print:
African sculpture
subjects:
Sculpture / African / Goldsmiths / Gold / Casts (sculpture)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400–1900 | author: Philips, Tom
Book Review
Babembe Sculpture
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 753
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
places:
Congo
print:
African sculpture
subjects:
Sculpture / African / Human figure / Fetish figures
subjects:
Wood sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Babembe Sculpture | author: Lecomte, Alain , author: Lehuard, Raoul
Exhibition Review
Kingdom of Ife. London
06/2010 | 1287 | 152
Pages: 422-423
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / Ife / England
print:
Ife
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Nigerian / African / Sculpture / Archaeology
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa | institution: British Museum
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
68. Granite sculpture of a calabash of fermenting palm wine. Ife, 12th to 15th century AD. Granite, 47.5 cm. high. (National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria; exh. British Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
69. Figure of a man with elephantiasis. Ife, 1100–1450 AD. Terracotta, 29 cm. high. (National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria; exh. British Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
70. Head. Ife, c.1450 AD. Cast copper, 33 cm. high. (National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria; exh. British Museum, London).
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