Course Credit: 4
Course : ARTH 257
Course Title: AFRICAN ART
Course from: BFA 2nd year
Course Teacher: Dr. Sk. Manir Uddin
E-mail: juelmanir@gmail.com
Marks: 100
Credit: 4
Contact Hours: 60
Marks distribution: 100%
(Written exam 75% + Two Assignments 15% + Two Class Tests 10%)
Introduction to the Course:
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding to the students of African Art and Culture.
Specific Objectives:
- Learn how nature and geography played a vital role in developing African Art and Culture.
- Learn how the old cultural landscape of Africa fostered the sense of aesthetics of art.
- Learn about the cultural background of African people and society.
- Learn about the African beliefs and practices and beliefs.
- Learn the significance of the African Crafts.
- Learn the significance of the African Arts and Crafts.
Course Contents:
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- History of Africa
- Geographical, political, social and cultural history of Africa
- Art of Africa: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and others
- African Mythology
- TimeLine
Other Descriptions:
Native Arts of Africa: Akan, Adinkra, Adire, Asanti, Baule, Bedu, Benin, Gelede, Ife, Igbo, Ndebele, Nok, Yoruba, And Zulu. Present Africa. Guggenheim Museum’s Exhibition: Africa: Art of a Continent: “Regional Map of Africa”, “Pre-Colonial Map of Africa”, “The Berlin Conference”, “Decolonization of Africa”, “Ethnic Groups in Africa”, “African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning”, “African Masks and Masquerades”. African Artists and Aesthetics, Saharan Rock Art, Southern African Rock Art, Nok Art, Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, Benin, Textiles and Personal Arts I, Textiles and Personal Arts II, Architecture: 20th Century African Art, African Artists and Aesthetics, Egypt, Sudan, Inland Niger Delta, Nok Terracottas (500 B.C. - 200 A.D.), Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.), Western North Africa (The Maghrib), Guinea Coast, Eastern and Southern Africa, African Christianity in Kongo, African Influences in Modern Art, African Lost-Wax Casting, African Lost-Wax Casting: Bronze, Copper, and Brass, African Lost-Wax Casting: The Tada Figure, African Rock Art, African Rock Art of the Central Zone, African Rock Art of the Northern Zone, African Rock Art of the Southern Zone, African Rock Art: Game Pass, African Rock Art: Tassili-n-Ajjer, African Rock Art: The Coldstream Stone, Afro-Portuguese Ivories, The Age of Iron in West Africa, Ana Nzinga: Queen of Ndongo, Apollo 11 (ca. 25,500–23,500 B.C.) and Wonderwerk (ca. 8000 B.C.) Cave Stones, Art, and the Fulani/Fulbe People, Art of the Asante Kingdom, Arts of Power Associations in West Africa, Arts of the San People in Nomansland, Asante Royal Funerary Arts, Asante Textile Arts, The Bamana Ségou State, Benin, Divination and Senufo Sculpture in West Africa, Dona Beatriz: Kongo Prophet,
The Empires of Western Sudan, The Empires of Western Sudan: Ghana Empire, The Empires of Western Sudan: Mali Empire, The Empires of Western Sudan: Songhai Empire, Ethiopia's Enduring Cultural Heritage, Exchange of Art and Ideas: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms, Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st–7th century), The Fulani/Fulbe People, Gold in Asante Courtly Arts, Great Zimbabwe (11th–15th century), Harry Burton (1879–1940): The Pharaoh's Photographer, Idia: The First Queen Mother of Benin, Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.), Ife Pre-Pavement and Pavement Era (800–1000 A.D.), Ife Terracottas (1000–1400 A.D.), Igbo-Ukwu (ca. 9th century), Inland Niger Delta, Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800, Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Funerary Arts,
Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Textile Arts, Kingdoms of Madagascar: Maroserana and Merina, Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Kuba Kingdom, Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Luba and Lunda Empires, Kongo Ivories, Lydenburg Heads (ca. 500), The Magic of Signs and Patterns in North African Art, Mapungubwe (ca. 1050–1270), The Monumental Stelae of Aksum (3rd–4th century), Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.), Origins and Empire: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms, Political African Women of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries, Portraits of African Leadership, Portraits of African Leadership: Living Rulers, Portraits of African Leadership: Memorials, Portraits of African Leadership: Royal Ancestors, The Portuguese in Africa, 1415–1600, San, Senufo Arts and Poro Initiation in Northern Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, Trade and the Spread of Islam in Africa, Trade Relations among European and African Nations, The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th–14th century), The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Tutankhamun's Funeral, Tutsi Basketry, African Sculptural Art, The Indigenous Sculptural Arts of South Africa in Perspective, Interpreting African Sculpture, Two Unusual Wood Sculptures from Ghana, Modern Sculptures from Zimbabwe, Miniature Sculptures from Africa, Baule, Senufo, Guro/Kono, Dan/Gunye ge, Lobi/Bateba, Asante/Akuaba, Ewe/Venavi, Yoruba/Ibeji, Yoruba/Eshu, Luba-Hemba, [Ba]Kongo, Songye, Modern African Art, African Sculpture: Wooden Mask, Mali, Standing Female Figure, Burkina Faso, Wooden Mask, Liberia/Guinea, Wooden Door, Ivory Coast, Mask with Iron and Wood, Ivory Coast, Gold Shield, Ivory Coast, Wooden Mask, Nigeria, Ivory Figure, Nigeria, Wooden Mask with antelope skin, Nigeria, Wooden Mask, Nigeria, Standing Male Figure, Nigeria, Female Bust, Nigeria, Alligator Head, Nigeria, Wooden Mask with feathers, Gabon, Wooden Figure, Gabon, Standing Male Figure 1, with nails, Zaire, Standing Male Figure 2, with blades, Zaire, Wooden Staff, Zaire, Wooden Mask with raffia, Zaire, Wooden Mask, Zaire, Wooden Mask with beads, Zaire, Wooden Mask, Zaire, Wooden Stool, Zaire, Seated Female Figure, Zaire, Wooden Doll, Botswana, African Textiles.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to
- Understand
- Analyze
- Interpret
- Discuss
- Present
- Compare
- Motivate to learn more advance on that lesson. / Motivate to acquire more knowledge on the subject matter.
- Do higher inquiry
- Conduct research
- Apply in their academic and professional life.
Instructional Strategies:
- Lectures
- Multimedia Presentations
- Discussions
- Individual Presentations
- Group work
- Spot visit
- Museum study
Assessment:
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- In-Course tutorials.
- Assignments
- Viva voce
- Presentation
- Course final will be assessed by an internal (course teacher) and an external examiner
References:
- wmMgyÛ d«‡qW, †Uv‡Ug I Uvey, KwjKvZv: myeY©‡iLv, 1993|
- Edward Lucie-Smith, Art and Civilization, Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publ.
- Sir Lawrence Gowing (ed) A History of Art, Burns & Nobles Books, New York, 1989.
- E.H.Gombrich, The Story of Art, Phaidon, London, 1968.
- Janson, H. W. The History of Art, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1986.