African Arts 47:1 (Spring 2014)

African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue. The journal offers readers peer-reviewed scholarly articles concerning a striking range of art forms and visual cultures of the world’s second largest continent and its diasporas, as well as special thematic issues, book and exhibition reviews, features on museum collections, exhibition previews, artist portfolios, photo essays, edgy dialogues, and editorials.

Contents of Issue 47:1 (Spring 2014):

first word
Africa at the 55th Venice Biennale:
Of Achievements and Illusions
Christine Eyene

in memoriam
Richard A. Long (1927–2013)
Carol Thompson

dialogue
The Patient Is Already Saved
dele jegede

articles

Ghana’s Glass Beadmaking Arts in Transcultural Dialogue
Suzanne Gott

photo essay
Carnival in Ghana
Fancy Dress Street Parades and Competition
Courtnay Micots

Baay Fall Sufi Da’iras
Voicing Identity Through Acoustic Communities
Julia Morris

The Motive of the Motif
Tattoos of Fulbe Pastoralists
Wendy Wilson-Fall

The Charles Lemaire Expedition Revisited
Sammy Baloji as a Portraitist of Present Humans in Congo Far West
Sammy Baloji (photography) and Maarten Couttenier (text)

exhibition reviews

Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa
National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
reviewed by Carol Magee

Kofi Setordji: Retrospective 1997–2012
Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
reviewed by Ozioma Onuzulike

Lalla Essaydi: Revisions
National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
reviewed by Amanda B. Carlson

book reviews

Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identity, and African Visual Culture
by Carol Magee
reviewed by Tanya Sheehan

In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art
ed. by Donald J. Cosentino
reviewed by Emilie Boone

Cameroon Thoughts and Memories: Ethnological Research in Oku and Kembong, 1975–2005
by Hans-Joachim Koloss
reviewed by Gitti Salami

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist
ed. by Salah Hassan
reviewed by W. Ian Bourland

african art in unusual places
Ashanti Pinotage
Doran H. Ross and Don Cole