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Finding Dr. Livingstone
This eye-opening perspective on Stanley’s expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa. In 1871, Welsh American journalist Henry M. Stanley traveled to Zanzibar in search of the “missing” Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone. A year later, Stanley emerged to announce that he had “found” and met with Livingstone on Lake Tanganyika. His alleged utterance there, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” was one of the most famous phrases of the nineteenth century, and Stanley’s book, How I Found Livingstone, became an international bestseller. In this fascinating volume Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi...
Art du Congo
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Congo Far West:
Deux jeunes artistes et acteurs culturels de Lubumbashi, le photographe Sammy Baloji et l'écrivain Patrick Mudekereza, ont été invités en résidence par le Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale et l'université de Gand. Lors de ce séjour au musée, ils ont produit diverses créations en dialogue avec une équipe scientifique multidisciplinaire et ont choisi de baptiser le projet " Congo Far West ", induisant une réflexion sur le rapport entre ces collections et l'actuelle République démocratique du Congo. Ce " Cahier de la résidence ", de même que l'exposition présentée au MRAC du 11 mai au 4 septembre 2011 sont les fruits de ce projet expérimental, transnational, interculturel et interdisciplinaire.
African Dream Machines
African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of ‘art’ objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of style and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. Among the artefacts made by southern African peoples, headrests were the best known. Anitra Nettleton’s study of the uses and forms of headrests opened up a number of art-historical methodologies in the attempt to gain an understanding of form, style and content in African art objects. Her drawings of each and every headrest encountered become a major part of the project.
Afrique
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