Lisa Homann
Biographic Data
| ID | 242652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Homann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Homann |
| SIGNATURE | HOMANN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0465-3618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 2: Coups, Pandemics, and Careers in African Art History
As I write this First Word from Burkina Faso, where I am researching masquerade, unpredictability is on my mind. Full-bodied, animated masks here are inherently capricious—one never knows what they might do. Perform a few dance steps? Threaten someone? Ham it up for the crowd? Make indecent gestures? Pass by? Masks’ mercurial behavior unsettles our sense of stability (Fig. 2). The feasibility of conducting research abroad is equally unpredictable…
Incremental Shifts: The Contemporariness of Masquerade
October 01 2020 Incremental Shifts: The Contemporariness of Masquerade Lisa Homann Lisa Homann Lisa Homann is an associate professor of art history at UNC Charlotte. She has authored numerous publications on aesthetics, performance, and artistic innovation in West African masquerades. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lisa Homann Lisa Homann is an associate professor…
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…
Controversy and human agency in 'portrait masks' from the studio of André Sanou
This article examines artist André Sanou's individual agency in the invention and popularity of 'portrait masks' in and around Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Rather than depicting abstract qualities of unseen natural forces, common among masks in this region, Sanou created the first portrait mask headpiece in a stylized but highly naturalistic manner, using a photograph as reference. It clearly depicted a specific human being, redefining the mask …
Future Thinking: Propositions and Possibilities for African Art History
Fifty years—more or less a generation—is a significant landmark for African Arts. The journal is now an elder, with all of the gravitas that role entails, and yet it is reborn with each new issue. Like all the best elders, African Arts embraces change without adopting the trends of any particular moment. With apologies for the layers of self-referentiality, we note that in his First Word for the first issue in this year's fiftieth anniversary com…
Alluring obscurity: Dancing nocturnal white masks in southwestern Burkina Faso
Controversy and human agency in 'portrait masks' from the studio of André Sanou
This article examines artist André Sanou's individual agency in the invention and popularity of 'portrait masks' in and around Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Rather than depicting abstract qualities of unseen natural forces, common among masks in this region, Sanou created the first portrait mask headpiece in a stylized but highly naturalistic manner, using a photograph as reference. It clearly depicted a specific human being, redefining the mask …
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…
Alluring obscurity: Dancing nocturnal white masks in southwestern Burkina Faso
Future Thinking: Propositions and Possibilities for African Art History
Fifty years—more or less a generation—is a significant landmark for African Arts. The journal is now an elder, with all of the gravitas that role entails, and yet it is reborn with each new issue. Like all the best elders, African Arts embraces change without adopting the trends of any particular moment. With apologies for the layers of self-referentiality, we note that in his First Word for the first issue in this year's fiftieth anniversary com…
Controversy and human agency in 'portrait masks' from the studio of André Sanou
This article examines artist André Sanou's individual agency in the invention and popularity of 'portrait masks' in and around Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Rather than depicting abstract qualities of unseen natural forces, common among masks in this region, Sanou created the first portrait mask headpiece in a stylized but highly naturalistic manner, using a photograph as reference. It clearly depicted a specific human being, redefining the mask …
Incremental Shifts: The Contemporariness of Masquerade
October 01 2020 Incremental Shifts: The Contemporariness of Masquerade Lisa Homann Lisa Homann Lisa Homann is an associate professor of art history at UNC Charlotte. She has authored numerous publications on aesthetics, performance, and artistic innovation in West African masquerades. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lisa Homann Lisa Homann is an associate professor…
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…
New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 2: Coups, Pandemics, and Careers in African Art History
As I write this First Word from Burkina Faso, where I am researching masquerade, unpredictability is on my mind. Full-bodied, animated masks here are inherently capricious—one never knows what they might do. Perform a few dance steps? Threaten someone? Ham it up for the crowd? Make indecent gestures? Pass by? Masks’ mercurial behavior unsettles our sense of stability (Fig. 2). The feasibility of conducting research abroad is equally unpredictable…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (3 works) · The arts (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (2 works)