The multiauthored book accompanying the World on the Horizon exhibition organized by Krannert Art Museum is the first interdisciplinary study of Swahili visual arts and their historically deep and enduring connections to eastern and central Africa, the port towns of the western Indian Ocean, Europe, and the United States. At once exhibition catalogue and scholarly inquiry, the publication features eighteen essays in a mix of formats - personal reflections, object biographies, as well as more in-depth critical treatments - and includes never before published images of works from the National Museums of Kenya and Bait Al Zubair Museum in Oman. By approaching the east African coast as a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence, these essays offer compelling new perspectives on the situated yet mobile and deeply networked social lives of Swahili objects. Moving between the broader structural relations of political economic change to more intimate narratives through which such change is experienced, the essays throw light on the ways in which the material fabric of the arts structure Swahili people's sense of self and community in an ever-changing world of oceanic and terrestrial movement. 这本由 Krannert 艺术博物馆组织的《地平线上的世界》展览的多作者合著的书,是对斯瓦希里视觉艺术及其与非洲东部和中部、西印度洋的港口城镇、欧洲和美国之间历史上深刻而持久的联系的第一次跨学科研究。该出版物同时还有展览目录和学术调查,其中包括十八篇不同格式的文章——个人反思、物品传记,以及更深入的批评性处理——其中还包括以前从未出版过的肯尼亚国家博物馆和 Bait Al Zubair Museum 的作品图片。通过接近东非海岸作为一个充满活力的全球文化融合的舞台,这些文章提供了引人注目的新视角,位于斯瓦希里人的物品,但流动和深入网络的社会生活。在政治经济变革的更广泛的结构关系和更亲密的叙述之间,这些文章揭示了斯瓦希里人在一个不断变化的海洋和陆地运动的世界中,艺术的物质结构是如何构建他们的自我意识和社区意识的。 基本信息 出版社 : Krannert Art Museum (2018年3月23日) 语言 : 英语 平装 : 368页 ISBN-10 : 1883015499 ISBN-13 : 978-1883015497 商品重量 : 975 g 尺寸 : 17.15 x 3.18 x 23.5 cm
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