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A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art
Institute of Chicago's extraordinary collection of the arts of
Africa Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional
African art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, this
stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from
regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by
leading art historians and anthropologists attend closely to the
meanings and materials of the works themselves in addition to
fleshing out original contexts. These experts also underscore the
ways in which provenance and collection history are important to
understanding how we view such objects today. Celebrating the Art
Institute's collection of traditional African art as one of the
oldest and most diverse in the United States, this is a fresh and
engaging look at current research into the arts of Africa as well
as the potential of future scholarship.
J. A. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and
accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa.
This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new
chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after
photography reached the west coast of Africa in the 1840s, the
technology and the resultant images were disseminated widely,
appealing to African elites, European residents, and travelers to
the region. Responding to the need for more photographs, expatriate
and indigenous photographers began working along the coasts,
particularly in major harbor towns. Green, whose identity remained
hidden behind his English surname, maintained a photography
business in Bonny along the Niger Delta. His work covered a wide
range of themes including portraiture, scenes of daily and ritual
life, commerce, and building. Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson, and
the contributors have uncovered 350 of Green's images in archives,
publications, and even albums that celebrated colonial
achievements. This landmark book unifies these dispersed images and
presents a history of the photographer and the area in which he
worked.
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