Reposant sur une exposition qui réunit 85 oeuvres exceptionnelles provenant de collections privées américaines ainsi que du National Museum of African Art de la Smithsonian Institution, à Washington, cet ouvrage vient compléter les rares publications consacrées aux traditions artistiques de l'Afrique australe. D'une incroyable inventivité et d'une grande diversité de matériaux, de formes et de styles, les objets originaires de cette partie du continent africain résistent à toute attribution ethnique spécifique. Petits et portables par nature, blagues à tabac, pipes, parures de tête, bâtons de marche ou de berger, pots à bière, vêtements ornés de perles, ils ont été créés par des peuplades d'éleveurs semi-nomades et destinés avant tout à un usage quotidien. Leur aspect extérieur usé et leur patine lustrée montrent à quel point ils ont servi. Qu'elles soient figuratives ou abstraites, taillées dans le bois, l'ivoire ou la corne, ou faites de tissu, de perles de verre ou d'argile, les oeuvres présentées dans cette publication étaient, pour la plupart, beaucoup plus que de simples objets fonctionnels joliment conçus.
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Constantine Petridis, membre de l'Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer en Belgique, est conservateur des arts africains au Cleveland Museum of Art et professeur adjoint d'histoire de l'art à la Case Western Reserve University, à Cleveland dans l'Ohio. Il a écrit Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, qui lui a valu en 2008 le prix du meilleur catalogue d'exposition attribué par la Midwest Art History Society. Karel Nel, professeur associé au Département des arts plastiques de l'Université du Witwatersrand, à Johannesburg, a beaucoup publié sur les arts de l'Afrique australe.
The prized personal possessions featured in this book signaled status, gender, or age, or served as symbolic intermediaries between the world of men and the realm of the ancestors. Astoundingly diverse and limitless in their inventiveness, materials, forms, and styles, these works from Southern Africa defy specific ethnic attribution. Small and portable in nature-snuff containers, pipes, headrests, staffs, sticks, beer vessels, beaded garments- they were created by semi-nomadic cattle-herding peoples and primarily intended for daily use. Their softened edges and lustrous patinas are obvious signs of wear and tear. Whether figurative or abstract, carved out of wood, ivory, or horn, or made of cloth, glass beads, or clay, most of the works presented in this publication were much more than exquisitely designed functional objects.
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