Fusions: Masquerades and thought style east of the Niger-Benue confluence, West Africa
Fusions: Masquerades and thought style east of the Niger-Benue confluence, West Africa, by Richard Fardon takes the masks of West Africa’s Upper Benue River region out of the museums and private collections, where many accumulated in the twentieth century, and restores their cultural and social contexts. Buy this book The book argues that Benue masquerades deserve appreciation as the materialized forms taken by the thought styles of...
africa95, Africa05 and beyond: El Anatsui in conversation with Sajid Rizvi
The artist El Anatsui, featured in the Royal Academy Summer Show 2013, spoke to Sajid Rizvi, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Eastern Art Report and publisher of the first book on the artist’s work (El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa | Buy this book) at the opening of his exhibition at the October Gallery, London, in August 2005. Below are edited excerpts: Sajid Rizvi. What has happened since africa95 in the world of...
Korean True-View Landscape: Paintings by Chong Son (1676-1759)
Korean True-View Landscape: Paintings by Chðng Sðn (1676-1759), a ground-breaking, revised and updated English-language edition of Kyomjae Chong Son chingyong sansu (The Art of Kyomjae Chðng Sðn) by Ch’oe Wan-su, has resulted from many months of painstaking work by Dr Pak Youngsook and Professor Roderick Whitfield, of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Buy this book or visit Safnet store....
Sir Aurel Stein in The Times
Sir Aurel Stein in The Times (Helen Wang, ed, 2002) is an unusual record of a British explorer’s life based almost entirely (with the exception of the compiler’s comprehensive Introduction) on clippings from The Times of London. Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943), renowned for his breath-taking archaeological exploration in Chinese Central Asia, India, Iran, Iraq and Jordan, and for his pioneering work on the early civilizations...
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