African Art
Traditions, symbols, and aesthetics of the African continentBy Maurice Delafosse
Length7h 14m
About this audiobook
African Art invites you to explore the dynamic origins of the vast artistic expressions arising from the exotic and mystifying African continent.
Since the discovery of African art at the end of the nineteenth century during the colonial expositions it has been a limitless source of inspiration for artists who, over time, have perpetually recreated these artworks.
The power of Sub-Saharan African art lies within its visual diversity, demonstrating the creativity of the artists who are continuing to conceptualize new stylistic forms. From Mauritania to South Africa and from the Ivory Coast to Somalia, statues, masks, jewelry, pottery and tapestries compose a variety of daily and ritual objects springing from these richly varied societies.
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GenreOther
Length7 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Preface
3Origins and Prehistory
4Aim and Object of This Book
5Origin of the Negro Peoples of Africa
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6Hypothetical Lemuria
7Oceanic Migrations
8Autochthonous Africans
9Peopling of Africa
10The Negroes of Africa at the Time of Herodotus
11Development of Negro Civilisations in Antiquity
12Paucity of Historical Documentation
13“Aggry Beads”
14Phoenician and Carthaginian Influence
15Abyssinian Semites and the Beni-Israel
16Romans and Berbers
17Negro Africa in the Middle Ages
18The Empire of Ghana
19The Almoravide Movement
20The Kingdom of Diara
21The Kingdom of Soso
22The Beginnings of the Songhoy Empire
23The Mandinka Empire
24The Mossi Empires
25West Africa from the 15th Century to Today
26More Abundant Documentation
27The Mandinka and Songhoy Empires
28The Askia Mohammed
29Koli-Tengella
30The Last Askias
31The Pashas of Timbuktu
32The Bambara Kingdoms
33The Tukulor Conquest
34The Wanderings of Samori
35The Peoples of the West Coast
36The Peoples of the Bend of the Niger
37The Negroes of Central and Eastern Sudan
38The Hausa Countries
39The Empire of Bornu
40The Bagirmi
41The Kingdom of Wadai
42Darfur and Kurdufan
43Rabah’s Adventure
44Mahdism
45Populations in the Neighbourhood of Abyssinia and Those of the Eastern Point of Africa
46South Africa
47The Bantu
48The Congo
49The Ansika
50The Mataman
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