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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

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