African art and agency in the workshopedited by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource. - African expressive cultures .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : rethinking the workshop / The contributions to this book / Follow the wood : carving and political cosmology in Oku, Cameroon / Masters, trend-makers, and producers : the village of Nsei, Cameroon, as a multisited pottery workshop / An artist's notes on the Triangle Workshops, Zambia and South Africa / Rethinking Mbari Mbayo : Osogbo workshops in the 1960s, Nigeria / Working on the small difference : notes on the making of sculpture in Tengenenge, Zimbabwe / Navigating Nairobi : artists in a workshop system, Kenya / Artesăos da nossa pátria : Makonde blackwood sculptors, cooperatives, and the art of socialist revolution in postcolonial Mozambique / Frank McEwen and Joram Mariga : patron and artist in the Rhodesian workshop school setting, Zimbabwe / "A matter of must" : continuities and change in the Adugbologe woodcarving workshop in Abeokuta, Nigeria / Apprentices and entrepreneurs : the workshop and style uniformity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Till Förster and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster. Production, education, and learning. Grace Dieu Mission in South Africa : defining the modern art workshop in Africa / Elizabeth Morton -- Nicolas Argenti -- Silvia Forni -- Namubiru Rose Kirumira and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. Audience and encounters. Stitched-up women, pinned-down men : gender politics in Weya and Mapula needlework, Zimbabwe and South Africa / Brenda Schmahmann -- Chika Okeke-Agulu -- Christine Scherer -- Jessica Gerschultz. Patronage and domination. Lewanika's workshop and the vision of Lozi Arts, Zambia / Karen E. Milbourne -- Alexander Bortolot -- Elizabeth Morton -- Norma H. Wolff. Comparative aspects. Work and workshop : the iteration of style and genre in two workshop settings, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon / Till Förster -- Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. Coda : apprentices and entrepreneurs revisited : twenty years of workshop changes, 1987-2007 / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir.



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Workshops--Africa.
Artists' studios--Africa.
Artisans--Societies, etc.--Africa
Art patronage--Africa.


Electronic Books.

N8520 / .A375 2013