Barron's: Chapter 27 - African Art Flashcards
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Time Period
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- From Prehistoric Times to the Present
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Great Zimbabwe
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- 11th-15th centuries
- Zimbabwe
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Bamileke
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- 11th-21st Centuries
- Cameroon
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Benin
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- 13th-19th Centuries
- Nigeria
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Luba
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- 16th-21st Centuries
- Congo
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Kuba
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- 17th-19th Centuries
- Congo
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Ashanti
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- 17th-21st Centuries
- Ghana
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Chokwe
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- 17th-21st Centuries
- Congo
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Yoruba
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- 17th-21st Centuries
- Nigeria
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Baule
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- 19th-21st Centuries
- Cote d’Ivoire
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Ibgo
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- 19th-21st Centuries
- Nigeria
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Fang
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- 19th-21st Centuries
- Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea
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Mende
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- 19th-21st Centuries
- Sierra Leone
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Essential Knowledge
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- Rock art is the earliest art form found in Africa. It depicts animals and human activity
- The spreading Sahara caused migrations of southern African were the arts flourished
- African art is truly interdisciplinary, encompassing a wide variety of media, materials, and performances
- African art addresses the spiritual world. It can be seen on everyday items, as well as on items associated with royalty
- Art can be commissioned by a shaman or a worshiper. It is often used as part of an elaborate and prescribed ritual
- art permeates all important aspects of society. Rituals initiate coming of age, leadership, or family communion, and often have elements of contact with ancestors
- art objects are often manipulated and interpreted in rituals. Historic accomplishments are orally preserved by poets and historians who used objects to identify with their stories
- Large leadership centers, as in Zimbabwe, show that Africans sometimes used monumental structures to mark settlements and territory
- African history has been preserved in an oral tradition. outsiders have used a written record of historical events
- Collectors of African art have often ignored the usual data associated with art history: the names of artists and the dates of creation
- African art has had a global impact
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Great Zimbabwe
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- c. 1000-1400
- granite
- Zimbabwe
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Ashlar Masonry
- Sawsa Waman
- Angkor Wat
- Parthenon
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Great Mosque
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- c. 1200
- rebuilt 1906-1907
- adobe
- remodeled in 1907
- Djenne, Mali
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Other Mosques
- Great Mosque, Cordoba
- Mosque of Selim II
- Great Mosque, Isfahan
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Wall plaque form Oba’s palace
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- sixteenth century
- brass
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Benin
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Bronze and Brass Work
- Donatello, David
- Great Buddha at Todai-ji
- Shiva as Lord of Dance
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Golden Stool (skia dwa kofi)
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- c. 1700
- gold over wood
- location unknown
- Ashanti
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Sacred Objects
- Kaaba
- Lanzon Stela
- Gold and Jade Crown
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Ndop (portrait figure of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul)
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- 1760-1780
- wood
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
- Kuba
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Authority Figures
- Houdon, George Washington
- Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene
- Stele of Hammurabi
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Kuba Nyim (ruler) Kot a Mbweeky III in state dress with royal drum in Mushenge
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- Congo
- Contextual Image
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Power figure (nkisi n’kondi)
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- c. late nineteenth century
- wood and metal
- Kongo
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Wood Sculpture
- Rottgen Pieta
- Transformation mask
- Nio guardian figure
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Portrait mask (mblo)
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- late nineteenth to early twentieth century
- wood and pigment
- Baule
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Female (Pwo) mask
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- late nineteenth to early twentieth century
- wood, fiber, pigment, and metal
- National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
- Chokwe
- Cross-Cultural Connections: Faces
- Roman Patrician
- Transformation Mask
- Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene
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Bundu mask
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- Sande Society
- nineteenth to early twentieth century
- wood, cloth, and fiber
- Private Collection
- Mende
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Art as Part of a Performance
- Presentation of Fijian mats …
- Viola, The Crossing
- Plaque of the Ergastines
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Ikenga (shrine figure)
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- c. ninteenth to twentieth century
- wood
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
- Igbo
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Sculpture in the Round
- Queen Hatshepsut with Offering Jars
- Rodin, The Burghers of Calais
- Abakanowicz, Androgyn III
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Memory Board (Lukasa)
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- Mbudye Society
- c. nineteenth to twentieth century
- wood, beads, and metal
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
- Luba
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Aka elephant mask
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- c. nineteenth to twentieth century
- wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads
- Bamileke
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Spiritual World
- Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- Staff God
- Queen Hatshepsut with Offering Jars
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Reliquary guardian figure (nlo bieri)
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- c. 19th to 20th century
- wood
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
- Fang
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Male Figure
- Apollo from Veii
- Donatello David
- Nio guardian figure
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Olowe of Ise
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- Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)
- 1910-1914
- wood and pigment
- Art Institue of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Yoruba
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Multi-Figure Sculptures
- Helios, Horses and Dionysos
- Rodin, The Burghers of Calais
- Menkaura and His Queen
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Adobe
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- a building material made from earth, straw, or clay dried in the sun
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Aka
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- an elephant mask of the Bamileke people of Cameroon
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Bieri
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- in the art of the Fang people, a reliquary guardian figure
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Bundu
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- masks used by the women’s Sande society to bring girls into puberty
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Cire perdue
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- the lost wax process. A bronze casting method in which a figure is modeled in clay and covered with wax and then recovered with clay
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Fetish
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- an object believed to possess magical powers
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Ikenga
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- a shrine figure symbolizing traditional male attributes of the Igbo people
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Lukasa
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- a memory board used by the Luba people of central Africa
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Mblo
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- a commemorative portrait of the Baule people
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Ndop
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- a Kuba commemorative portrait of a king in an ideal state
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Nkisi n’kondi
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- a Kongo power figure
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Pwo
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- a female mask worn by women of the Chokwe people
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Scarification
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- scarring of the skin in patterns by cutting with a knife; when the cut heals, a raised pattern is created, which is painted
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Torons
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- wooden beams projecting from walls of adobe buildings
