Redefining Art and Art History; The Aesthetics and Power of Masks and Amulets in West and Central Africa and across the Atlantic World

Authors :: de Jorio, Rosa
Hellweg, Joseph
Source :: Africa Today. Summer, 2024, Vol. 70 Issue 4, p71, 17 p.
Publication Year :: 2024
Abstract: This forum explores recent publications by two art historians: Susan Gagliardi's Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the SenufoMande 'Frontier' (2022) and Matthew Rarey's Insignificant Things: Amulets and [...]

Subjects :: Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the SenufoMande 'Frontier' (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation
Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation
Art historians -- Criticism and interpretation
Masks -- Portrayals
Art history -- Criticism and interpretation
Art, African -- Criticism and interpretation
Amulets -- Portrayals
Political science
Regional focus/area studies
Social sciences

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