Jean M Borgatti
Biographic Data
| ID | 221649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean M Borgatti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean M |
| FAMILY NAME | Borgatti |
| SIGNATURE | BORGATTI J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Re: []Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times curated by Paul Basu
[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times is an exhibition drawn from the Museum Affordances/[Re:]Entanglements project led by Paul Basu, formerly at SOAS University of London. The exhibition revisits the ethnographic archive assembled by the colonial anthropologist Northcote W. Thomas in Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 1909 and 1915. The title itself plays on the ideas of the entangling of Africa and the West during …
Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance
October 01 2020 Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance Lisa Homann, Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar UCLA Editorial Board, UCLA Editorial Board Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
Why Africa? Why now? The designs of Ade Bakare
Ade Bakare’s designs show his use of historic Yoruba textiles and textile design techniques to complement gowns and dresses, less African in style than western. Bakare was born and educated in the United Kingdom, and his early career was firmly based in European fashion. After graduating from Salford University College in 1990, Bakare worked in London’s fashion industry, establishing his own label in 1991. However, the first reference to Africa i…
African Art in Unusual Places
Willie Cole's Africa Remix: Trickster and “Tribe”
June 01 2009 Willie Cole's Africa Remix: Trickster and “Tribe” Jean Borgatti Jean Borgatti Jean Borgatti has a faculty research appointment at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she taught from 1984–2004. In Spring 2009, she taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jean Borgatti Jean Borgatti has a…
Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria
Believing Africa , Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Manning Hall, Brown University, Providence, Rl, September 2006–February 2009
Africa: Imagery and iconography
Edo
The Otsa Festival of the Ekperi: Igbo Age-Grade Masquerades on the West Bank of the Niger
The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth-Century American Art
Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Ethiopia Awakening What a Carving Re-members Harlem Nostalgia The Double-Headed Axe (Re) visioning Africa When Memory Fails Crossroads to Amnesia Conclusion: Spring and Renewal Notes Index
Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back
This volume explores issues that remain unexposed in museum presentations of African art. It responds to questions posed by audiences who read the usual label but still want to know more. Why is the figure pounded with nails not called a fetish any more? Exactly how old is this and how do you know? When was this collected, by whom and from whom? What is happening in this part of Africa today? Who displayed this as art and why? Given that many mus…
Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta
Lamidi Olonade Fakeye: A Retrospective Exhibition and Autobiography
Recovering Benin: The Conference at Wellesley
The Woman with the Artistic Brush: A Life History of Yoruba Batik Artist Nike Davies
States are the key to contemporary government reform efforts in the United States, but we know very little about their relative effectiveness at resource allocation and their actual capacity to absorb additional fiscal and managerial responsibilities. This pathbreaking study examines state budget offices as institutional actors, with special attention to the role of budget examiners. Drawing on empirical findings from field studies of eleven stat…
The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection
THE ART OF IDENTITY: AFRICAN SCULPTURE FROM THE TEEL COLLECTION. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (November 30, 1996-ongoing) Curators: Suzanne Preston Blier, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University; Aimee Bessire, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University; and Mark Bessire, Africa Fulbright Fellow-1996
The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts
African Portraiture: A Commentary
Portraiture in Africa
A portrait depicts a specific person, and the idea of portraiture springs from a common impulse to remember and be remembered, whether the reasons are personal or political, ritual or social. The nature of portrayal differs from culture to culture, however, subject to concepts of individualism, the prevailing aesthetic, and a host of social or ritual beliefs particular to a given time period, people, or place.' Western culture emphasizes individu…
African Art in American Collections: Survey 1989
African art -- with its powerful forms, complex symbolism, and formal inventiveness -- has only recently come to be recognized as one of the great artistic traditions of mankind. This rich tradition is showcased here in a remarkable selection of outstanding works. Nearly 1,600 objects are illustrated, each accompanied by scholarly information on style, usage, meaning, and cultural origin. Featured individually by section are the styles of Western…
A Short History of African Art
An history of the visual arts of Africa - sculpture, painting and architecture; textiles, pottery and other household objects; jewellery, ceremonial and religious dress and body art. The author examines the major influences on African culture and art over the centuries: the civilizations of Egypt and the Mediterranean coast, the spread of Islam, the Bantu migrations, the evolution of the tribal system, the arrival of the Europeans and Christianit…
African Masterpieces from the Musee de l'Homme
Cloth as Metaphor: Nigerian Textiles from the Museum of Cultural History
Cloth as Metaphor: Nigerian Textiles from the Museum of Cultural History
Portraiture in Africa
A portrait depicts a specific person, and the idea of portraiture springs from a common impulse to remember and be remembered, whether the reasons are personal or political, ritual or social. The nature of portrayal differs from culture to culture, however, subject to concepts of individualism, the prevailing aesthetic, and a host of social or ritual beliefs particular to a given time period, people, or place.' Western culture emphasizes individu…
A Short History of African Art
An history of the visual arts of Africa - sculpture, painting and architecture; textiles, pottery and other household objects; jewellery, ceremonial and religious dress and body art. The author examines the major influences on African culture and art over the centuries: the civilizations of Egypt and the Mediterranean coast, the spread of Islam, the Bantu migrations, the evolution of the tribal system, the arrival of the Europeans and Christianit…
African Portraiture: A Commentary
Re: []Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times curated by Paul Basu
[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times is an exhibition drawn from the Museum Affordances/[Re:]Entanglements project led by Paul Basu, formerly at SOAS University of London. The exhibition revisits the ethnographic archive assembled by the colonial anthropologist Northcote W. Thomas in Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 1909 and 1915. The title itself plays on the ideas of the entangling of Africa and the West during …
Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance
October 01 2020 Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance Lisa Homann, Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar UCLA Editorial Board, UCLA Editorial Board Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth-Century American Art
Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Ethiopia Awakening What a Carving Re-members Harlem Nostalgia The Double-Headed Axe (Re) visioning Africa When Memory Fails Crossroads to Amnesia Conclusion: Spring and Renewal Notes Index
Age Grades, Masquerades, and Leadership among the Northern Edo
Bref apercu des mascarades traditionnelles Yoruba (Ekiti et Igbomina) qui presentent de nombreux points communs avec celles des populations de langue Edo du nord du Nigeria. Description detaillee de l'organisation en classes d'âge de la communaute Edo d'Otuo et des types de masque qui se rattachent a chacune d'entre elles: masques en raphia, en feuilles, en bois sculpte a plusieurs etages
Dead Mothers of Okpella
Les Meres Mortes sont des masques representant des femmes chez les Okpella du Nigeria. Ces masques, qui sont la possession de femmes, sont par contre portes lors des fetes par des hommes
African Sculpture Speaks
Historian and collector Ladislas Segy approaches African art from several different but interrelated perspectives, considering sculptures first as products of a distinct African culture, then as high-quality works of art. Seeking to bring the African carver's work within the scope of the Western observer, Segy stresses the need for appraising African art within its own context, suspending established procedures for art appreciation and viewing th…
Ucla's Yoruba Doors
Le Musee des Arts Ethniques a UCLA a acquis recemment deux portes Yoruba. L'acquisition de ces portes constitue un exemple unique et heureux du vaste heritage de la sculpture architecturale africaine. Par tradition, la sculpture meme et l'emplacement de semblables portes sont determine par des considerations precises de rang et de prestige. On trouvait souvent dans les cours des rois, des chefs, et des hommes riches de la societe Yoruba, des port…
Discovering Nigeria's Past
Okpella Masking Traditions
Negro Sculpture: A Photographic Approach
On Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast: A Study in Contrasts
African Sculpture Speaks
Historian and collector Ladislas Segy approaches African art from several different but interrelated perspectives, considering sculptures first as products of a distinct African culture, then as high-quality works of art. Seeking to bring the African carver's work within the scope of the Western observer, Segy stresses the need for appraising African art within its own context, suspending established procedures for art appreciation and viewing th…
Dead Mothers of Okpella
Les Meres Mortes sont des masques representant des femmes chez les Okpella du Nigeria. Ces masques, qui sont la possession de femmes, sont par contre portes lors des fetes par des hommes
Knowing the Unknown: The George Way Harley Memorial Collection of Liberian Masks and Artifacts in the Duke University Museum of Art
Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World
The Dance, Art and Ritual of Africa
Age Grades, Masquerades, and Leadership among the Northern Edo
Bref apercu des mascarades traditionnelles Yoruba (Ekiti et Igbomina) qui presentent de nombreux points communs avec celles des populations de langue Edo du nord du Nigeria. Description detaillee de l'organisation en classes d'âge de la communaute Edo d'Otuo et des types de masque qui se rattachent a chacune d'entre elles: masques en raphia, en feuilles, en bois sculpte a plusieurs etages
The Idiom of War in the Bamum Court Arts
Yoruba Beaded Crowns: Sacred Regalia of the Olokuku of Okuku
Okpella Masks: In Search of the Parameters of the Beautiful and the Grotesque
African Furniture and Household Objects
Art and Society in Africa
Years of Afro-American Art: An Annotated Bibliography
History of Ga'anda/Tarihin Ga'anda
Cloth as Metaphor: Nigerian Textiles from the Museum of Cultural History
Cloth as Metaphor: Nigerian Textiles from the Museum of Cultural History
African Masterpieces from the Musee de l'Homme
A Short History of African Art
An history of the visual arts of Africa - sculpture, painting and architecture; textiles, pottery and other household objects; jewellery, ceremonial and religious dress and body art. The author examines the major influences on African culture and art over the centuries: the civilizations of Egypt and the Mediterranean coast, the spread of Islam, the Bantu migrations, the evolution of the tribal system, the arrival of the Europeans and Christianit…
African Portraiture: A Commentary
Portraiture in Africa
A portrait depicts a specific person, and the idea of portraiture springs from a common impulse to remember and be remembered, whether the reasons are personal or political, ritual or social. The nature of portrayal differs from culture to culture, however, subject to concepts of individualism, the prevailing aesthetic, and a host of social or ritual beliefs particular to a given time period, people, or place.' Western culture emphasizes individu…
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