Importance of West African Visual Art to West Africa

Arts of Western Africa

Mary Jo Arnoldi

• LAST REVIEWED: 06 May 2016
• LAST MODIFIED: 29 October 2013
• DOI: ten.1093/obo/9780199846733-0018

Introduction

West African arts include many of the most outstanding works from the continent and in the world. Abode to both large empires and nomadic groups, this region has produced cultures that take created a variety of fine art forms, from awe-inspiring architecture to small and intimate personal objects. Dating from the first millennium BCE through the present day, West African art has been the focus of a growing torso of research over the by half century. This article provides an overview of this literature, with an emphasis on recent resource. Sections include reference works, databases, bibliographies, journals, and anthologies that provide users with tools to explore the full range of publications on West African arts. There are also a pocket-sized number of formative studies from the showtime half of the twentieth century which influenced research on the arts over several generations. The 1960s mark the cease of the colonial era for most of West Africa (exceptions are Guinea Bissau and Cape verde, which gained their independence in 1973 and 1975, respectively). The 1960s also saw more than exhibitions on West African arts, a new journal, and new publications, all of which take continued and gained increasing momentum into the present. The report of African fine art has e'er been interdisciplinary, and it has engaged critical perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, art history, and history, and more recently from film and photographic history and cultural studies. The resources included in this article reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the scholarship. The mail-1960 sources are organized into sections that include special topics, fine art and archaeology, regional surveys, and the arts of private indigenous groups. They are followed past a department on artists and artistic practices and a large section focused on media and materials that is subdivided into architecture; figurative sculpture in wood, metallic, and stone; masks and masquerades; pottery and other containers; and textiles, apparel, and beautification. The terminal section of this article covers contemporary African art, i of the fastest-growing areas of inquiry and publication. Its definitions and scholarly approaches are besides the most debated and contentious. In this section, the sources are divided into general overviews followed by sections on modernist arts, pop urban and tourist arts, African photography, and African movie theatre.

Reference Works

A number of reference works include both text and illustrations. Grove Fine art Online 2003 is an important resource for manufactures with illustrations on West African arts. JSTOR is a wide-based and first-class resources for scholarly manufactures on West African arts that can be either printed or downloaded as PDFs. Eicher and Ross 2010, an encyclopedia of African dress and fashion, is an important resource for the written report of African art; information technology includes authoritative and accessible articles on Due west African dress past scholars working within this unabridged region.

• Armes, Roy. Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008.

  Resource for students of African feature films includes Due west African filmmakers; 1,250 entries provide information on their training and the major influences on their work.

• Eicher, Joanne Bubolz, and Doran H. Ross, eds. Berg Encyclopedia of World Clothes and Fashion. Vol. 1, Africa. Oxford: Berg, 2010.

  DOI: 10.2752/BEWDF/EDv1

  Major reference work offering a comprehensive overview of African dress and way. W African dress is well represented in the volume. Attainable for students. Articles are signed by contributors and include bibliographies. Over 300 images. Published in print and online for purchase or by subscription.

• Grove Art Online. Edited past Jane Turner, 2003.

  First published as the landmark thirty-four-book Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, this online version is searchable, with extensive entries on African art organized by region and topic. Due west African arts are well represented. Searches produce many related entries. Numerous illustrations. Available past subscription.

• JSTOR.

  Electronic archive includes full texts of articles from fifty-ane African Studies journals and 185 art journals, including African Arts (cited under Journals). Available past subscription; many academic libraries subscribe. Searchable. Articles can exist printed or downloaded as PDFs.

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