Visual Cultures of Africa / / edited by Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel, Ernst Wagner.

• TeilnehmendeR: Wagner, Ernst,; Kriel, Lize,; Kidenda, Mary Clare,
• Place / Publishing House: Münster : : Waxmann,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Ressource (255 Seiten)

The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to embodied performances by dancers and storytellers, even re-designed models of Western cars. Educators, designers, ar...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Lize Kriel Introduction
• Visual cultures in Africa: Skills, knowledge, preservation and transfer as praxis
• Ebenezer Kwabena Acquah and Isaac Opoku-Mensah Stimulating visual cultural literacy. Akan symbolic forms in perspective
• Jane Otieno Socio-cultural aspects of traditional pottery production among Jonyuol Nyalo women group, Kisumu, Kenya
• Mary Clare Kidenda How BerNeno creations in the Jua Kali sector use reflective practice for apprenticeship in product design
• Rashida Resario The visible and the invisible in the visual culture of the Ghana Dance Ensemble. Towards mimetic empathy
• Melisa Achoko Allela and Odoch Pido Digitising Lawino. Creating an expressive embodied conversational agent based on Okot p'Biteks' Song of Lawino
• Alexis Malefakis From "recycling art" to "reverse engineering". Skill research in the Ethnographic Museum
• Visual cultures of Africa: Collections, museums andexhibitions from conservation to conversation
• Stefan Eisenhofer "Fetish figures" (minkisi) from Central Africa and Catholic holy figures from Europe
• Mark Evans Émigrés and African art in England
• Njeri Gachihi, Frauke Gathof, Clara Himmelheber, Lydia Nafula, Leonie Neumann, Philemon Nyamanga, and Juma Ondeng' Visualizing the Kenyan collections in Western museums. An intercontinental
• Bea Lundt What about the "Castles" in Ghana? Material relics of colonialism and the slave trade: a disturbing and challenging visual legacy of three continents
• Benjamin Merten Concrete Limbo. A trans-continental dialogue on space and responsibility
• African visual expression in materials and media appropriated from encounters with the West
• Esther Kute and Odoch Pido The shoes on my feet. A visual culture of footwear in Africa
• Lize Kriel Book cover design and the visual culture of land and ancestors. The case of Botlale Tema's Welgeval, Pilanesberg, South Africa
• Lydia Muthuma and Fred Mbogo The film Softie and the Kenyan imaginary
• Amanda du Preez The right to be seen and to look. Selfies # FeesMustFall and # endSARS
• Contemporary Art: African praxis as conversation with its past and with the world
• Ernst Wagner and Sokari Douglas Camp In-Between. A conversation between Sokari Douglas Camp and Ernst Wagner
• Runette Kruger Strategies of co-liberation and belonging in the work of South African artists Titus Matiyane and Candice Breitz
• Avitha Sooful Breaking traditional rules. Artmaking practices of Muelwa Noria Mabasa and Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi
• Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako Visual culture and conflicts of representation in contemporary art in Cameroon
• Angelika Boeck Africanisation of the European - vulnerability and de-colonisation
• Ronnie Watt Reading South African ceramics as narratives of entanglement and constructed alterity
• Authors.