Kathy Curnow
Biographic Data
| ID | 159177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Curnow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Curnow |
| SIGNATURE | CURNOW K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7418-6117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Afterlives of the Black Atlantic
October 21 2021 Afterlives of the Black Atlantic Afterlives of the Black Atlantic curated by Andrea Gyorody and Matthew Francis Rarey Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH August 20, 2019–May 24, 2020 Kathy Curnow Kathy Curnow Kathy Curnow teaches African and African American art history at Cleveland State University. She is currently writing a book about Oba Esigie's involvement with the sixteenth-century arts of Nigeria's Beni…
The View From Here: Contemporary Perspectives from Senegal
It's rare that Americans can view a snapshot of contemporary African art made in one center by a sizable number of artists at a specific point in time. Without the opportunity to travel to Johannesburg, to Lagos, to Kinshasa, we lack that sense of a particular African art scene that thrives on its own zeitgeist, on the friendships and rivalries of its protagonists, on the deprivations and abundance shared by those who are not yet household names.…
The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation
Rowland Abiodun's Yorùbá Art and Language contains many extremely valuable features, wrapped around a question he raises in its introduction: can foreign scholars ever truly understand a work the way its Yorùbá makers and users do? Language mastery certainly provides the native speaker with access to inestimable insights regarding not only general worldview, but specifics of philosophy, history keeping, and subtleties of knowledge transmission. H…
Ivory as Cultural Document: The Crushing Burden of Conservation
Efforts to stop the international ivory trade and save the affected elephants have increasingly emphasized public ivory crushes of confiscated tusks and carved works. While this and other efforts to involve the public in conservation are commendable, they have a burdensome side. First, African cultural ivories, the artists who made them, and the people who used them may be scapegoated in a misplaced desire to identify perpetrators and hold them r…
Africa: Sculpture
Africa: Materials and techniques
The Art of Fasting: Benin's Ague Ceremony
Part of a special issue on the Great Benin Centenary, which marks the British invasion and conquest of Benin in 1897 (see also summer 1997 issue). The writer discusses Benin's Ague ceremony. She notes that formerly a ceremony of critical importance, Ague has received little scholarly attention. This could be, she explains, because its full celebration ceased during the reign of Oba Eweka II (ca. 1914–33). Among the topics she discusses are how th…
The Art of Benin
Alien or Accepted: African Perspectives on the Western 'Other' in 15th and 16th Century Art
Rejoinder from Curnow
Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory
“Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory“ is the eighth exhibition organized by the Center for African Art, New York, now in its fourth year. It explores the artistic and historical relationship between Africa and Renaissance Europe, as revealed by ivory objects sculpted by Africans for Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The exhibition focuses on 105 carvings, drawn from private collections and museums worldwide, including the M…
Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory
“Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory“ is the eighth exhibition organized by the Center for African Art, New York, now in its fourth year. It explores the artistic and historical relationship between Africa and Renaissance Europe, as revealed by ivory objects sculpted by Africans for Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The exhibition focuses on 105 carvings, drawn from private collections and museums worldwide, including the M…
The Art of Benin
The Art of Fasting: Benin's Ague Ceremony
Part of a special issue on the Great Benin Centenary, which marks the British invasion and conquest of Benin in 1897 (see also summer 1997 issue). The writer discusses Benin's Ague ceremony. She notes that formerly a ceremony of critical importance, Ague has received little scholarly attention. This could be, she explains, because its full celebration ceased during the reign of Oba Eweka II (ca. 1914–33). Among the topics she discusses are how th…
Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory
“Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory“ is the eighth exhibition organized by the Center for African Art, New York, now in its fourth year. It explores the artistic and historical relationship between Africa and Renaissance Europe, as revealed by ivory objects sculpted by Africans for Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The exhibition focuses on 105 carvings, drawn from private collections and museums worldwide, including the M…
Alien or Accepted: African Perspectives on the Western 'Other' in 15th and 16th Century Art
Rejoinder from Curnow
The Art of Fasting: Benin's Ague Ceremony
Part of a special issue on the Great Benin Centenary, which marks the British invasion and conquest of Benin in 1897 (see also summer 1997 issue). The writer discusses Benin's Ague ceremony. She notes that formerly a ceremony of critical importance, Ague has received little scholarly attention. This could be, she explains, because its full celebration ceased during the reign of Oba Eweka II (ca. 1914–33). Among the topics she discusses are how th…
The Art of Benin
Africa: Sculpture
Africa: Materials and techniques
Ivory as Cultural Document: The Crushing Burden of Conservation
Efforts to stop the international ivory trade and save the affected elephants have increasingly emphasized public ivory crushes of confiscated tusks and carved works. While this and other efforts to involve the public in conservation are commendable, they have a burdensome side. First, African cultural ivories, the artists who made them, and the people who used them may be scapegoated in a misplaced desire to identify perpetrators and hold them r…
Afterlives of the Black Atlantic
October 21 2021 Afterlives of the Black Atlantic Afterlives of the Black Atlantic curated by Andrea Gyorody and Matthew Francis Rarey Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH August 20, 2019–May 24, 2020 Kathy Curnow Kathy Curnow Kathy Curnow teaches African and African American art history at Cleveland State University. She is currently writing a book about Oba Esigie's involvement with the sixteenth-century arts of Nigeria's Beni…
The View From Here: Contemporary Perspectives from Senegal
It's rare that Americans can view a snapshot of contemporary African art made in one center by a sizable number of artists at a specific point in time. Without the opportunity to travel to Johannesburg, to Lagos, to Kinshasa, we lack that sense of a particular African art scene that thrives on its own zeitgeist, on the friendships and rivalries of its protagonists, on the deprivations and abundance shared by those who are not yet household names.…
The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation
Rowland Abiodun's Yorùbá Art and Language contains many extremely valuable features, wrapped around a question he raises in its introduction: can foreign scholars ever truly understand a work the way its Yorùbá makers and users do? Language mastery certainly provides the native speaker with access to inestimable insights regarding not only general worldview, but specifics of philosophy, history keeping, and subtleties of knowledge transmission. H…
Art (7 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)