Marla C Berns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3471183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marla C Berns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marla C |
| FAMILY NAME | Berns |
| SIGNATURE | BERNS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Advisory Board Company (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Doran H. Ross
It took the UCLA African Arts editorial board less than a minute to decide unanimously to dedicate a full issue of the journal to honoring Doran H. Ross and his expansive contributions to the field of African and African Diaspora arts and expressive culture (Fig. 1). To start, there is probably no one who has contributed more to African Arts than Doran. As Donald Cosentino, his former coeditor, writes in his First Word, Doran was an editor for ne…
Doran H. Ross 1947–2020
Mapping History in Clay and Skin: Strategies for Remembrance among Ga’ anda of Northeastern Nigeria
Ga’anda people of northeastern Nigeria employ various strategies to preserve and transmit key knowledge of historical events, including the production of material objects decorated to serve as landscapes of memory. The most important of these objects are the ceramic vessels that women artists produce to contain Ga’anda spirit protectors and culture bearers—especially Mbir’thleng’nda and Ngum-Ngumi, who are credited with leading Ga’anda people in …
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
Life has an edge, sometimes keen, sometimes blunt. Enter iron—digging, cutting, shining, or rusting, but always transforming circumstances. Iron is “born” when smelting releases it from rock. How did sub-Saharan Africans affect these complex processes, sculpt natural-draft furnaces by hand, and create malleable iron to change the world? How did smelters and smiths know which ore to select, which wood to cut for charcoal, and how to position logs …
Celebrating Fifty Years
African Arts is celebrating its half-century milestone! Its first issue was published in autumn of 1967, the brainchild of UCLA faculty Paul O. Proehl and John Povey, who became its first editor-in-chief and managing editor, respectively. We celebrated the 100th issue in October 1992 (vol. 25, no. 4), and did so under the leadership of Doran H. Ross and Donald J. Cosentino, who joined the editorial board in 1988 (Cosentino retired in 2004 and Ros…
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
Pottery-Making in Bonakire, Ghana
March 01 2007 Pottery-Making in Bonakire, Ghana Marla C. Berns Marla C. Berns Marla C. Berns is the director of the Fowler Museum at ucla and an editor of African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Marla C. Berns Marla C. Berns is the director of the Fowler Museum at ucla and an editor of African Arts. [email protected] Online ISSN: 1937-2108 Print ISSN: 00…
Intersections World Arts Local Lives
For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection
Africa: Sculpture
Africa: Household utensils
Africa: Materials and techniques
Terracotta
Africa at the Venice Biennale
Ucla Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Ceramic Gestures: New Vessels by Magdalene Odundo
Smashing Pots: Works of Clay from Africa
Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo
Art, history, and gender: Women and clay in West Africa
Recollections of Arnold Rubin
This issue of “African Arts”, together with the next, to be published in July, is a tribute to Arnold Rubin. All of us who have contributed to these two volumes recall the various kinds of relationships we shared with Arnold--as his students, cohorts, teachers, colleagues, and friends--relationships that shifted and converged at different stages of our lives and careers. So, too, can many other readers of this journal remember their own interacti…
Pots as People: Yungur Ancestral Portraits
Ceramic Clues: Art History in the Gongola Valley
Ceramic Arts in Africa
Four Dan Sculptors: Continuity and Change
Ancestral Art of Gabon
Art, history, and gender: Women and clay in West Africa
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
Ceramic Arts in Africa
Ceramic Clues: Art History in the Gongola Valley
Decorated Gourds of Northeastern Nigeria
Pottery-Making in Bonakire, Ghana
March 01 2007 Pottery-Making in Bonakire, Ghana Marla C. Berns Marla C. Berns Marla C. Berns is the director of the Fowler Museum at ucla and an editor of African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Marla C. Berns Marla C. Berns is the director of the Fowler Museum at ucla and an editor of African Arts. [email protected] Online ISSN: 1937-2108 Print ISSN: 00…
Pots as People: Yungur Ancestral Portraits
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
Life has an edge, sometimes keen, sometimes blunt. Enter iron—digging, cutting, shining, or rusting, but always transforming circumstances. Iron is “born” when smelting releases it from rock. How did sub-Saharan Africans affect these complex processes, sculpt natural-draft furnaces by hand, and create malleable iron to change the world? How did smelters and smiths know which ore to select, which wood to cut for charcoal, and how to position logs …
Celebrating Fifty Years
African Arts is celebrating its half-century milestone! Its first issue was published in autumn of 1967, the brainchild of UCLA faculty Paul O. Proehl and John Povey, who became its first editor-in-chief and managing editor, respectively. We celebrated the 100th issue in October 1992 (vol. 25, no. 4), and did so under the leadership of Doran H. Ross and Donald J. Cosentino, who joined the editorial board in 1988 (Cosentino retired in 2004 and Ros…
Recollections of Arnold Rubin
This issue of “African Arts”, together with the next, to be published in July, is a tribute to Arnold Rubin. All of us who have contributed to these two volumes recall the various kinds of relationships we shared with Arnold--as his students, cohorts, teachers, colleagues, and friends--relationships that shifted and converged at different stages of our lives and careers. So, too, can many other readers of this journal remember their own interacti…
African Art Studies in the 1980s
Negro Sculpture: A Photographic Approach
African Art: A Selection from Two Private Collections
Ibo Sculpture. Masks and Ancestor Figures
Les Arts Des Sao
Unearthing Igbo-Ukwu: Archaeological Discoveries in Eastern Nigeria
The Art and Material Culture of the Zulu-Speaking Peoples
Wood and Beaded Sculpture from African Forests and Grasslands
African Art Studies in the 1980s
ASA Meeting, 1979
Masterpieces of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
History of Ga'anda/Tarihin Ga'anda
Sculpture of Northeastern Nigeria
Decorated Gourds of Northeastern Nigeria
The Essential Gourd: Art and History in Northeastern Nigeria
The Power of Headdresses: A Cross-Cultural Study of Forms and Functions
Four Dan Sculptors: Continuity and Change
Ancestral Art of Gabon
Ceramic Clues: Art History in the Gongola Valley
Ceramic Arts in Africa
Pots as People: Yungur Ancestral Portraits
Recollections of Arnold Rubin
This issue of “African Arts”, together with the next, to be published in July, is a tribute to Arnold Rubin. All of us who have contributed to these two volumes recall the various kinds of relationships we shared with Arnold--as his students, cohorts, teachers, colleagues, and friends--relationships that shifted and converged at different stages of our lives and careers. So, too, can many other readers of this journal remember their own interacti…
Art, history, and gender: Women and clay in West Africa
Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo
Ceramic Gestures: New Vessels by Magdalene Odundo
Smashing Pots: Works of Clay from Africa
Art (32 works) · Visual arts (22 works) · Geography (17 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · History (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · The arts (7 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works)