Susan Mullin Vogel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Mullin Vogel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Mullin |
| FAMILY NAME | Vogel |
| SIGNATURE | VOGEL S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Film Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Long View: Leadership at a Critical Juncture for “African Art” in America
With the perspective reached after fifty years (yes!) working with museum collections of art from Africa, I see a critical juncture now for “African art”—the famed historic sculpture tradition that forms the canonical core—both as an idea and as material objects present in the American art world. In museums especially, “African art” is now being fundamentally redefined by people outside the field while at the same time it is fading from view. The…
Susan Mullin Vogel: Disturbing Expectations
Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion
Museums provide an experience of most of the world’s art and artifacts that does not bear even the remotest resemblance to what their makers intended. African art provides a useful and particularly sharp instance of the distortion produced by exhibiting in museums objects made for quite different purposes. The cultural context of much of the world’s art, particularly that large segment which is religious in inspiration, is remote from the contemp…
Mary “Polly” Nooter Roberts 1959–2018
Oriki for Robert Farris Thompson
When Drewal was invited to write a praise piece for Robert Farris Thompson for this issue celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of African Arts, he soon realized it was beyond his body-mind-heart, because Bob himself is larger than life, a person who has touched and inspired so many folks in so many walks of life and thought. So Drewal contacted his dear friend and colleague C. Daniel Dawson, who may know Bob better than anyone, as well as Bob's i…
Jerome M. Vogel 1933–2014
June 01 2015 Jerome M. Vogel 1933–2014 Susan Mullin Vogel, Susan Mullin Vogel Susan Mullin Vogel is a curator, scholar and film maker. Recent projects are the film Fold Crumple Crush and the book El Anatsui: Art and Life. Her current project is for the Qatar Museums, an exhibition of Saharan and Arabian tents as architecture and design. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Philip M. Peek, Philip M. Pee…
El Anatsui: Pot of Wisdom . Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, December 14, 2012–January 19, 2013
A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Works of El Anatsui
This thoughtful one-person exhibition by the art historian Yukiya Kawaguchi, in the ethnographic museum in Osaka, lands at the intersection of art and ethnology, Africa and internationalism. The exhibition is masterfully curated and beautifully installed, but the premise stated in the title and implied in the show’s institutional context overemphasizes the African and ethnographic sources of Anatsui’s art. Rather misrepresenting both Africa and A…
Whither African Art? Emerging Scholarship at the End of an Age
n their abundance, diversity, and complexity, the classical arts of Africa remain as rich and inex haustible a subject for study as Roman art or Shakespeare. Yet scholarship in the traditional arts of Africa seems-if anything-quite exhausted. Over the past century, African art chiefly sculpture in wood-has gradually won wide recognition as one of the great artistic achievements of humankind and become the subject of thousands of schol arly studie…
Sòmonò Puppet Masquerades in Kirango, Mali
Presentation et commentaire de photographies sur les mascarades aquatiques organisees sur le fleuve Niger par l'association des jeunes de la communaute de pecheurs somono de Kirango (Mali). L'A. met notamment en relation les photographies realisees par S. Vogel en 1986 avec les materiaux historiques sur les anciennes macarades. Parmi les figures animales les plus importantes de ce theâtre de marionnettes sont notamment le chat sauvage jarawara et…
Known Artists but Anonymous Works: Fieldwork and Art History
L'A. s'interroge sur un paradoxe qui emerge de l'histoire de l'art africain : dans la plupart des societes africaines les artistes sont connus et ont une reputation individuelle, mais la perennite de leur nom est rarement mise en relation avec les objets qu'ils ont crees. S'agit-il d'un fait ethnographique ou est-ce le resultat de lacunes methodologiques ? Quel est l'etendue de ce phenomene ? Quel en est la signification quant aux concepts d'arti…
Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
This volume presents an extremely complete picture of the Baule people of the central Ivory Coast and their material culture.Richly illustrated (it is an exhibition catalogue) and welldocumented, Vogel's analysis attempts to present Baule art from the "author's" view point, using quotations from Baule individuals to argue that the Baule do not think of the beautiful objects that they create in the same way that we do in the West.She states that t…
Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
Baule African Art/Western Eyes
The sculptures of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast have long been recognized in Europe and the United States as one of Africa's most significant traditions. The work of many modern artists - Amedeo Modigliani in particular - refelects the direct influence of Baule invention and forms. This text explores for the texture and details of Baule life and art. Illustrations include field photographs showing artworks in the intimacy of daily lives and…
Baule: African Art Western Eyes
This volume presents an extremely complete picture of the Baule people of the central Ivory Coast and their material culture.Richly illustrated (it is an exhibition catalogue) and welldocumented, Vogel's analysis attempts to present Baule art from the "author's" view point, using quotations from Baule individuals to argue that the Baule do not think of the beautiful objects that they create in the same way that we do in the West.She states that t…
Language and Dutton's New Mythologies
Exhibition-Ism: Museums and African Art
Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection
"Responses to the Review of "Africa and the Renaissance
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…
Aesthetics of African Art: The Carlo Monzino Collection
African Aesthetics
Bringing African Art to the Metropolitan Museum
For Spirits and Kings
For spirits and kings: African art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection
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…
Whither African Art? Emerging Scholarship at the End of an Age
n their abundance, diversity, and complexity, the classical arts of Africa remain as rich and inex haustible a subject for study as Roman art or Shakespeare. Yet scholarship in the traditional arts of Africa seems-if anything-quite exhausted. Over the past century, African art chiefly sculpture in wood-has gradually won wide recognition as one of the great artistic achievements of humankind and become the subject of thousands of schol arly studie…
Baule African Art/Western Eyes
The sculptures of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast have long been recognized in Europe and the United States as one of Africa's most significant traditions. The work of many modern artists - Amedeo Modigliani in particular - refelects the direct influence of Baule invention and forms. This text explores for the texture and details of Baule life and art. Illustrations include field photographs showing artworks in the intimacy of daily lives and…
Known Artists but Anonymous Works: Fieldwork and Art History
L'A. s'interroge sur un paradoxe qui emerge de l'histoire de l'art africain : dans la plupart des societes africaines les artistes sont connus et ont une reputation individuelle, mais la perennite de leur nom est rarement mise en relation avec les objets qu'ils ont crees. S'agit-il d'un fait ethnographique ou est-ce le resultat de lacunes methodologiques ? Quel est l'etendue de ce phenomene ? Quel en est la signification quant aux concepts d'arti…
The Long View: Leadership at a Critical Juncture for “African Art” in America
With the perspective reached after fifty years (yes!) working with museum collections of art from Africa, I see a critical juncture now for “African art”—the famed historic sculpture tradition that forms the canonical core—both as an idea and as material objects present in the American art world. In museums especially, “African art” is now being fundamentally redefined by people outside the field while at the same time it is fading from view. The…
Baule: African Art Western Eyes
This volume presents an extremely complete picture of the Baule people of the central Ivory Coast and their material culture.Richly illustrated (it is an exhibition catalogue) and welldocumented, Vogel's analysis attempts to present Baule art from the "author's" view point, using quotations from Baule individuals to argue that the Baule do not think of the beautiful objects that they create in the same way that we do in the West.She states that t…
African Ivories
African Sculpture: The Shape of Surprise
For spirits and kings: African art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection
Baule Statuary Art: Meaning and Modernization
Bringing African Art to the Metropolitan Museum
For Spirits and Kings
African Aesthetics
Aesthetics of African Art: The Carlo Monzino Collection
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…
"Responses to the Review of "Africa and the Renaissance
Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection
Exhibition-Ism: Museums and African Art
Baule: African Art Western Eyes
This volume presents an extremely complete picture of the Baule people of the central Ivory Coast and their material culture.Richly illustrated (it is an exhibition catalogue) and welldocumented, Vogel's analysis attempts to present Baule art from the "author's" view point, using quotations from Baule individuals to argue that the Baule do not think of the beautiful objects that they create in the same way that we do in the West.She states that t…
Language and Dutton's New Mythologies
Baule African Art/Western Eyes
The sculptures of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast have long been recognized in Europe and the United States as one of Africa's most significant traditions. The work of many modern artists - Amedeo Modigliani in particular - refelects the direct influence of Baule invention and forms. This text explores for the texture and details of Baule life and art. Illustrations include field photographs showing artworks in the intimacy of daily lives and…
Known Artists but Anonymous Works: Fieldwork and Art History
L'A. s'interroge sur un paradoxe qui emerge de l'histoire de l'art africain : dans la plupart des societes africaines les artistes sont connus et ont une reputation individuelle, mais la perennite de leur nom est rarement mise en relation avec les objets qu'ils ont crees. S'agit-il d'un fait ethnographique ou est-ce le resultat de lacunes methodologiques ? Quel est l'etendue de ce phenomene ? Quel en est la signification quant aux concepts d'arti…
Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
This volume presents an extremely complete picture of the Baule people of the central Ivory Coast and their material culture.Richly illustrated (it is an exhibition catalogue) and welldocumented, Vogel's analysis attempts to present Baule art from the "author's" view point, using quotations from Baule individuals to argue that the Baule do not think of the beautiful objects that they create in the same way that we do in the West.She states that t…
Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
Sòmonò Puppet Masquerades in Kirango, Mali
Presentation et commentaire de photographies sur les mascarades aquatiques organisees sur le fleuve Niger par l'association des jeunes de la communaute de pecheurs somono de Kirango (Mali). L'A. met notamment en relation les photographies realisees par S. Vogel en 1986 avec les materiaux historiques sur les anciennes macarades. Parmi les figures animales les plus importantes de ce theâtre de marionnettes sont notamment le chat sauvage jarawara et…
Whither African Art? Emerging Scholarship at the End of an Age
n their abundance, diversity, and complexity, the classical arts of Africa remain as rich and inex haustible a subject for study as Roman art or Shakespeare. Yet scholarship in the traditional arts of Africa seems-if anything-quite exhausted. Over the past century, African art chiefly sculpture in wood-has gradually won wide recognition as one of the great artistic achievements of humankind and become the subject of thousands of schol arly studie…
A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Works of El Anatsui
This thoughtful one-person exhibition by the art historian Yukiya Kawaguchi, in the ethnographic museum in Osaka, lands at the intersection of art and ethnology, Africa and internationalism. The exhibition is masterfully curated and beautifully installed, but the premise stated in the title and implied in the show’s institutional context overemphasizes the African and ethnographic sources of Anatsui’s art. Rather misrepresenting both Africa and A…
El Anatsui: Pot of Wisdom . Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, December 14, 2012–January 19, 2013
Jerome M. Vogel 1933–2014
June 01 2015 Jerome M. Vogel 1933–2014 Susan Mullin Vogel, Susan Mullin Vogel Susan Mullin Vogel is a curator, scholar and film maker. Recent projects are the film Fold Crumple Crush and the book El Anatsui: Art and Life. Her current project is for the Qatar Museums, an exhibition of Saharan and Arabian tents as architecture and design. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Philip M. Peek, Philip M. Pee…
Oriki for Robert Farris Thompson
When Drewal was invited to write a praise piece for Robert Farris Thompson for this issue celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of African Arts, he soon realized it was beyond his body-mind-heart, because Bob himself is larger than life, a person who has touched and inspired so many folks in so many walks of life and thought. So Drewal contacted his dear friend and colleague C. Daniel Dawson, who may know Bob better than anyone, as well as Bob's i…
Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion
Museums provide an experience of most of the world’s art and artifacts that does not bear even the remotest resemblance to what their makers intended. African art provides a useful and particularly sharp instance of the distortion produced by exhibiting in museums objects made for quite different purposes. The cultural context of much of the world’s art, particularly that large segment which is religious in inspiration, is remote from the contemp…
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