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- catalog abstract "This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expression and self-understanding, and the aesthetics of contemporary urban African and Third World societies. As a collaboration between ethnographer and painter, this innovative study challenges text-oriented approaches to understanding history and argues instead for an event- and experience-oriented model, ultimately adding a fresh perspective to the discourse on the relationship between modernity and tradition. During the 1970s, Johannes Fabian encouraged Tshibumba Kanda Matulu to paint the history of Zaire. The artist delivered the work in batches, together with an oral narrative. Fabian recorded these statements along with his own question-and-answer sessions with the painter. The first part of the book is the complete series of 100 paintings, with excerpts from the artist's narrative and the artist-anthropologist dialogues. Part Two consists of Fabian's essays about this and other popular painting in Zaire. The essays discuss such topics as performance, orality, history, colonization, and popular art.".
- catalog contributor b9628455.
- catalog coverage "Congo (Democratic Republic) In art Exhibitions.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""Iconography" (p. 317-327)".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index.".
- catalog description "This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expression and self-understanding, and the aesthetics of contemporary urban African and Third World societies. As a collaboration between ethnographer and painter, this innovative study challenges text-oriented approaches to understanding history and argues instead for an event- and experience-oriented model, ultimately adding a fresh perspective to the discourse on the relationship between modernity and tradition. During the 1970s, Johannes Fabian encouraged Tshibumba Kanda Matulu to paint the history of Zaire. The artist delivered the work in batches, together with an oral narrative. Fabian recorded these statements along with his own question-and-answer sessions with the painter. The first part of the book is the complete series of 100 paintings, with excerpts from the artist's narrative and the artist-anthropologist dialogues. Part Two consists of Fabian's essays about this and other popular painting in Zaire. The essays discuss such topics as performance, orality, history, colonization, and popular art.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The history of Zaire as painted and told by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu -- pt. 2. All was lost: ethnographic essays on Tshibumba's history of Zaire.".
- catalog extent "xv, 348 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0520203755 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520203763 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Congo (Democratic Republic) In art Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "759.96751 20".
- catalog subject "ND1099.C63 T7534 1997".
- catalog subject "Tshibumba Kanda Matulu Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Tshibumba Kanda Matulu Themes, motives.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The history of Zaire as painted and told by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu -- pt. 2. All was lost: ethnographic essays on Tshibumba's history of Zaire.".
- catalog title "Remembering the present : painting and popular history in Zaire / Johannes Fabian.".
- catalog type "text".