Frederic Lamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 2350367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederic Lamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederic |
| FAMILY NAME | Lamp |
| SIGNATURE | LAMP F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3744-7650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Was Bayard Rustin the Most Important Collector of African Antiquities in the 1950s
Naming the Baga: Problems in the Identity of a Guinean Cultural Amalgamation
Along the coast of the Republic of Guinea, the term “Baga” has been used to cover a large amalgamation of cultural groups, always previously misinterpreted. There are five dialect groups called Baga within the Temne language group. The question raised here concerns the etymology of the name Baga, as it has evolved in juxtaposition to the name Temne in Sierra Leone. It is an attempt to parse the intricate use of language to describe the historical…
L’ivoire et la pierre: Relations directes entre les productions sculptées dans ces matériaux sur la côte de Sierra Leone aux XVe-XVIe siècles
Depuis la découverte de sculptures anciennes en pierre en Sierra Leone, et l’attribution d’œuvres en ivoire au sein des collections européennes aux Sapi, peuples anciens de Sierra Leone, la question de leurs relations est posée. Où étaient les ateliers des tailleurs sur ivoire et les ateliers des tailleurs sur pierre ; étaient-ils les mêmes ? Quelques exemples ont un contenu identique. Les motifs suggèrent que les sculptures en ivoire destinées a…
Ivory and Stone: Direct Connections between Sculptural Media along the Coast of Sierra Leone, 15th–16th Centuries
Depuis la découverte de sculptures anciennes en pierre en Sierra Leone, et l’attribution d’œuvres en ivoire au sein des collections européennes aux Sapi, peuples anciens de Sierra Leone, la question de leurs relations est posée. Où étaient les ateliers des tailleurs sur ivoire et les ateliers des tailleurs sur pierre ; étaient-ils les mêmes ? Quelques exemples ont un contenu identique. Les motifs suggèrent que les sculptures en ivoire destinées a…
Even the Elders Have Moved On
June 01 2013 Even the Elders Have Moved On Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp is the Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and Lecturer in Theater Studies at Yale. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp is the Frances & Benjamin Benenson Found…
Temne Twins (Tà-bàri) Should Share Everything: Do You Mean Everything
March 01 2008 Temne Twins (Tà-bàri) Should Share Everything: Do You Mean Everything? Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp is the Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. He has conducted research in Sierra Leone and Guinea, with numerous national fellowships. His publications include See the Music, Hear the Dance, Art of the Baga, and many articles. frederick.lamp@yal…
Hot Space, Cool Space: The Reinstallation of the African Collection in the Louis Kahn Building at Yale University
June 01 2007 Hot Space, Cool Space: The Reinstallation of the African Collection in the Louis Kahn Building at Yale University Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art, holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale (1982). From 1981 to 2003, he was a curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and taught at Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art. H…
Africa: Imagery and iconography
Africa: Regional overview
Africa Centered
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
This is a study of the art and cultural history of the Baga people. The Baga villages are situated on islands in the mangrove swamps along the coast of Guinea between the northern border and the city of Conakry, just under the western-most tip of the African continent. Throughout their history, they have suffered the incursions of foreign peoples and their ideas, and decades of religious and political oppression. Much of their cultural heritage h…
Ancient Wood Figures from Sierra Leone: Implications for Historical Reconstruction
Comparaison avec les sculptures anciennes de pierre, d'ivoire. Analyse stylistique, filiations culturelles permettant quelques hypotheses sur l'histoire du peuplement
Heavenly Bodies: Menses, Moon, and Rituals of License among the Temne of Sierra Leone
An Opera of the West African Bondo: The Act, Ideas, and the Word
the coming-out. The Temne call this coming-out al-wol (The Play), and they achieve it through the performance of theatrical events consisting of acts and scenes incorporating singing, instrumental music, costuming, lighting from natural sources, cosmetics, and dance movement, best approximating the Western form of theatre called opera. But it is a performance not only performed-it is an instrument that performs an operation, a work that effects c…
Moving with the Face of the Devil
Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
Response to Mcnaughton
The Art of the Baga: A Preliminary Inquiry
Cosmos, Cosmetics, and the Spirit of Bondo
Masques, peintures faciales, sculptures associees a l'association feminine Bondo (ou Sande) de la Sierra Leone et du nord-ouest liberian. Etude stylistique et semiologique. Symbolisme de la chrysalide des masques-heaume, des motifs geometriques, zoomorphes, botaniques| semiotique de l'inversion sexuelle dans la danse masquee| analogie linguistique entre les termes designant le cosmos et les cosmetiques, associant les principes de beaute et d'harm…
African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art
African Art of the West Atlantic Coast: Transition in Form and Content
The Dance, Art and Ritual of Africa
Treasures from the Ivory Coast
Frogs into Princes: The Temne Rabai Initiation
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
This is a study of the art and cultural history of the Baga people. The Baga villages are situated on islands in the mangrove swamps along the coast of Guinea between the northern border and the city of Conakry, just under the western-most tip of the African continent. Throughout their history, they have suffered the incursions of foreign peoples and their ideas, and decades of religious and political oppression. Much of their cultural heritage h…
Cosmos, Cosmetics, and the Spirit of Bondo
Masques, peintures faciales, sculptures associees a l'association feminine Bondo (ou Sande) de la Sierra Leone et du nord-ouest liberian. Etude stylistique et semiologique. Symbolisme de la chrysalide des masques-heaume, des motifs geometriques, zoomorphes, botaniques| semiotique de l'inversion sexuelle dans la danse masquee| analogie linguistique entre les termes designant le cosmos et les cosmetiques, associant les principes de beaute et d'harm…
Africa Centered
Temne Twins (Tà-bàri) Should Share Everything: Do You Mean Everything
March 01 2008 Temne Twins (Tà-bàri) Should Share Everything: Do You Mean Everything? Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp is the Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. He has conducted research in Sierra Leone and Guinea, with numerous national fellowships. His publications include See the Music, Hear the Dance, Art of the Baga, and many articles. frederick.lamp@yal…
Ancient Wood Figures from Sierra Leone: Implications for Historical Reconstruction
Comparaison avec les sculptures anciennes de pierre, d'ivoire. Analyse stylistique, filiations culturelles permettant quelques hypotheses sur l'histoire du peuplement
Naming the Baga: Problems in the Identity of a Guinean Cultural Amalgamation
Along the coast of the Republic of Guinea, the term “Baga” has been used to cover a large amalgamation of cultural groups, always previously misinterpreted. There are five dialect groups called Baga within the Temne language group. The question raised here concerns the etymology of the name Baga, as it has evolved in juxtaposition to the name Temne in Sierra Leone. It is an attempt to parse the intricate use of language to describe the historical…
The Art of the Baga: A Preliminary Inquiry
Frogs into Princes: The Temne Rabai Initiation
African Weaving and Traditional Dress
Treasures from the Ivory Coast
Frogs into Princes: The Temne Rabai Initiation
The Dance, Art and Ritual of Africa
African Art of the West Atlantic Coast: Transition in Form and Content
African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Cosmos, Cosmetics, and the Spirit of Bondo
Masques, peintures faciales, sculptures associees a l'association feminine Bondo (ou Sande) de la Sierra Leone et du nord-ouest liberian. Etude stylistique et semiologique. Symbolisme de la chrysalide des masques-heaume, des motifs geometriques, zoomorphes, botaniques| semiotique de l'inversion sexuelle dans la danse masquee| analogie linguistique entre les termes designant le cosmos et les cosmetiques, associant les principes de beaute et d'harm…
The Art of the Baga: A Preliminary Inquiry
Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
Response to Mcnaughton
Heavenly Bodies: Menses, Moon, and Rituals of License among the Temne of Sierra Leone
An Opera of the West African Bondo: The Act, Ideas, and the Word
the coming-out. The Temne call this coming-out al-wol (The Play), and they achieve it through the performance of theatrical events consisting of acts and scenes incorporating singing, instrumental music, costuming, lighting from natural sources, cosmetics, and dance movement, best approximating the Western form of theatre called opera. But it is a performance not only performed-it is an instrument that performs an operation, a work that effects c…
Moving with the Face of the Devil
Ancient Wood Figures from Sierra Leone: Implications for Historical Reconstruction
Comparaison avec les sculptures anciennes de pierre, d'ivoire. Analyse stylistique, filiations culturelles permettant quelques hypotheses sur l'histoire du peuplement
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
This is a study of the art and cultural history of the Baga people. The Baga villages are situated on islands in the mangrove swamps along the coast of Guinea between the northern border and the city of Conakry, just under the western-most tip of the African continent. Throughout their history, they have suffered the incursions of foreign peoples and their ideas, and decades of religious and political oppression. Much of their cultural heritage h…
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
Africa Centered
Africa: Imagery and iconography
Africa: Regional overview
Hot Space, Cool Space: The Reinstallation of the African Collection in the Louis Kahn Building at Yale University
June 01 2007 Hot Space, Cool Space: The Reinstallation of the African Collection in the Louis Kahn Building at Yale University Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art, holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale (1982). From 1981 to 2003, he was a curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and taught at Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art. H…
Temne Twins (Tà-bàri) Should Share Everything: Do You Mean Everything
March 01 2008 Temne Twins (Tà-bàri) Should Share Everything: Do You Mean Everything? Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp is the Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. He has conducted research in Sierra Leone and Guinea, with numerous national fellowships. His publications include See the Music, Hear the Dance, Art of the Baga, and many articles. frederick.lamp@yal…
Even the Elders Have Moved On
June 01 2013 Even the Elders Have Moved On Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp is the Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and Lecturer in Theater Studies at Yale. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Frederick John Lamp Frederick John Lamp is the Frances & Benjamin Benenson Found…
L’ivoire et la pierre: Relations directes entre les productions sculptées dans ces matériaux sur la côte de Sierra Leone aux XVe-XVIe siècles
Depuis la découverte de sculptures anciennes en pierre en Sierra Leone, et l’attribution d’œuvres en ivoire au sein des collections européennes aux Sapi, peuples anciens de Sierra Leone, la question de leurs relations est posée. Où étaient les ateliers des tailleurs sur ivoire et les ateliers des tailleurs sur pierre ; étaient-ils les mêmes ? Quelques exemples ont un contenu identique. Les motifs suggèrent que les sculptures en ivoire destinées a…
Ivory and Stone: Direct Connections between Sculptural Media along the Coast of Sierra Leone, 15th–16th Centuries
Depuis la découverte de sculptures anciennes en pierre en Sierra Leone, et l’attribution d’œuvres en ivoire au sein des collections européennes aux Sapi, peuples anciens de Sierra Leone, la question de leurs relations est posée. Où étaient les ateliers des tailleurs sur ivoire et les ateliers des tailleurs sur pierre ; étaient-ils les mêmes ? Quelques exemples ont un contenu identique. Les motifs suggèrent que les sculptures en ivoire destinées a…
Naming the Baga: Problems in the Identity of a Guinean Cultural Amalgamation
Along the coast of the Republic of Guinea, the term “Baga” has been used to cover a large amalgamation of cultural groups, always previously misinterpreted. There are five dialect groups called Baga within the Temne language group. The question raised here concerns the etymology of the name Baga, as it has evolved in juxtaposition to the name Temne in Sierra Leone. It is an attempt to parse the intricate use of language to describe the historical…
Art (17 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (8 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Sierra leone (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)