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- catalog abstract ""Photojournalist Courtney-Clarke, whose book Ndebele captured the painted wall art of South Africa, brings the same inquiring spirit to this depiction of her three-year trek from Nigeria to Senegal. Surviving sandstorms, locusts and malaria, she documents the bold geometric and symbolic wall paintings made by women in remote West African villages. These women transform objects from their daily world--a fish net, a cooking pot, a weaving, a calabash--into rippling patterns laden with cosmic significance. Made with natural pigments from plants or clay, these pictures often perish in the rainy season. Creeping urbanization is also taking its toll on the villages, whose mud compounds, houses, clothing, body painting and pottery Courtney-Clarke documents as well. This strong, moving photoessay is equally valuable as an investigation of a dwindling way of life and as a permanent record of a seldom-seen vernacular art form."--Amazon.".
- catalog contributor b2871639.
- catalog contributor b2871640.
- catalog created "c1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "c1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1990.".
- catalog description ""Photojournalist Courtney-Clarke, whose book Ndebele captured the painted wall art of South Africa, brings the same inquiring spirit to this depiction of her three-year trek from Nigeria to Senegal. Surviving sandstorms, locusts and malaria, she documents the bold geometric and symbolic wall paintings made by women in remote West African villages. These women transform objects from their daily world--a fish net, a cooking pot, a weaving, a calabash--into rippling patterns laden with cosmic significance. Made with natural pigments from plants or clay, these pictures often perish in the rainy season. Creeping urbanization is also taking its toll on the villages, whose mud compounds, houses, clothing, body painting and pottery Courtney-Clarke documents as well. This strong, moving photoessay is equally valuable as an investigation of a dwindling way of life and as a permanent record of a seldom-seen vernacular art form."--Amazon.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 204).".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Compound -- Painting -- Motifs -- Interiors.".
- catalog extent "204 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "African canvas.".
- catalog identifier "0847811662".
- catalog isFormatOf "African canvas.".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "c1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Rizzoli,".
- catalog relation "African canvas.".
- catalog spatial "Africa, West".
- catalog subject "709/.66 20".
- catalog subject "Art, Black Africa, West Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Art, Primitive Africa, West Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Art, West African Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "N7398 .C68 1990".
- catalog subject "Vernacular architecture Africa, West Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Women artists Africa, West Pictorial works.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Compound -- Painting -- Motifs -- Interiors.".
- catalog title "African canvas : the art of West African women / photographs and text by Margaret Courtney-Clarke ; foreword by Maya Angelou.".
- catalog type "text".