| Titre : |
African cosmos : stellar arts |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Christine Mullen Kreamer, Auteur ; Erin Haney, Collaborateur ; Katharine Monsted, Collaborateur ; Karel Nel, Collaborateur ; Randall Bird, Collaborateur |
| Editeur : |
Washington (D.C.) [États-Unis] : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Année de publication : |
c2012 |
| Autre Editeur : |
New York - New York [États-Unis] : Monacelli Press |
| Importance : |
1 vol. (368 p.) |
| Présentation : |
ill. en noir et en coul., couv. ill. |
| Format : |
29 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-58093-343-8 |
| Note générale : |
Publié conjointemment à l'exposition organisée par et présentée au National Museum of African Art, du 20 juin au 9 décembre 2012.
Don de la Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Bibliogr. en fin des chaps. |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Art -- Afrique subsaharienne -- Expositions ; Astronomie -- Dans l'art -- Expositions ; Cosmologie -- Dans l'art -- Expositions
|
| Index. décimale : |
709.6 |
| Résumé : |
A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the "cosmological map" that allows humans to chart their course through life |
| Note de contenu : |
Foreword.--HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: Ch. 1. African cultural astronomy: a constellation of symbols and metaphors / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Ch. 2. The early history of astronomy and cosmology / Wallace Hooper -- Ch. 3. Inhabiting the heavens: a divine tour of the ancient Egyptian sky / Jennifer Houser Wegner -- Ch. 4. Bridging science and culture: astronomy in Africa / Thebe Rodney Medupe -- Ch. 5. Cosmic Africa: African cultural astronomy and the research behind the film / Anne Rogers.--Galileo in Senegal / Katrien Kolenberg -- CASE STUDIES: Ch. 7. African cosmos: performing the moral universe / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Ch. 8. Cosmos imagery in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia / Marilyn E. Heldman --Ch. 9. Earth, sky, ancestors: building the Merina world in nineteenth-century Madagascar / Randall Bird -- Ch. 10. Performing cosmology: harmonies of land, lake, body, and sky / Allen F. Roberts -- Ch. 11. Cosmic references in ancient Ife / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Ch. 12. Ayél'ojà Òrunn'lé: imaging and performing Yoruba cosmology / Babatunde Lawal -- Ch. 13. Setting cosmos in motion: myths and initiation in Nkanu arts / Annemieke van Damme -- Ch. 14. Igbo wonder in clay and cloth: Mbari houses and Ijele masks / Herbert M. Cole -- Ch. 15. Sons of the moon: Ngas astronomy and ritual on Nigeria's central plateau / Dierddre Lapin -- Ch. 16. Moonlight and clapping hands: Lozi cosmic arts of Barotseland (western Zambia) / Karen E. Milbourne -- Ch. 17. A universe of possibilities: contemporary artists' perspectives on the cosmos / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Ch. 18. Chasing llight / Marcus Neustetter interviewé par Erin L. Haney -- Ch. 19. Cosmic threads: children of the stars and other projects / William Boshoff -- Ch. 20. The cosmos and Africa: balancing data and the poetics of knowledge / Karel Nel -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Photography credits |
African cosmos : stellar arts [texte imprimé] / Christine Mullen Kreamer, Auteur ; Erin Haney, Collaborateur ; Katharine Monsted, Collaborateur ; Karel Nel, Collaborateur ; Randall Bird, Collaborateur . - Washington (D.C.) (Washington, D.C., États-Unis) : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution : New York - New York (États-Unis) : Monacelli Press, c2012 . - 1 vol. (368 p.) : ill. en noir et en coul., couv. ill. ; 29 cm. ISBN : 978-1-58093-343-8 Publié conjointemment à l'exposition organisée par et présentée au National Museum of African Art, du 20 juin au 9 décembre 2012.
Don de la Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Bibliogr. en fin des chaps. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Art -- Afrique subsaharienne -- Expositions ; Astronomie -- Dans l'art -- Expositions ; Cosmologie -- Dans l'art -- Expositions
|
| Index. décimale : |
709.6 |
| Résumé : |
A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the "cosmological map" that allows humans to chart their course through life |
| Note de contenu : |
Foreword.--HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: Ch. 1. African cultural astronomy: a constellation of symbols and metaphors / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Ch. 2. The early history of astronomy and cosmology / Wallace Hooper -- Ch. 3. Inhabiting the heavens: a divine tour of the ancient Egyptian sky / Jennifer Houser Wegner -- Ch. 4. Bridging science and culture: astronomy in Africa / Thebe Rodney Medupe -- Ch. 5. Cosmic Africa: African cultural astronomy and the research behind the film / Anne Rogers.--Galileo in Senegal / Katrien Kolenberg -- CASE STUDIES: Ch. 7. African cosmos: performing the moral universe / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Ch. 8. Cosmos imagery in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia / Marilyn E. Heldman --Ch. 9. Earth, sky, ancestors: building the Merina world in nineteenth-century Madagascar / Randall Bird -- Ch. 10. Performing cosmology: harmonies of land, lake, body, and sky / Allen F. Roberts -- Ch. 11. Cosmic references in ancient Ife / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Ch. 12. Ayél'ojà Òrunn'lé: imaging and performing Yoruba cosmology / Babatunde Lawal -- Ch. 13. Setting cosmos in motion: myths and initiation in Nkanu arts / Annemieke van Damme -- Ch. 14. Igbo wonder in clay and cloth: Mbari houses and Ijele masks / Herbert M. Cole -- Ch. 15. Sons of the moon: Ngas astronomy and ritual on Nigeria's central plateau / Dierddre Lapin -- Ch. 16. Moonlight and clapping hands: Lozi cosmic arts of Barotseland (western Zambia) / Karen E. Milbourne -- Ch. 17. A universe of possibilities: contemporary artists' perspectives on the cosmos / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Ch. 18. Chasing llight / Marcus Neustetter interviewé par Erin L. Haney -- Ch. 19. Cosmic threads: children of the stars and other projects / William Boshoff -- Ch. 20. The cosmos and Africa: balancing data and the poetics of knowledge / Karel Nel -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Photography credits |
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