Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2023343410> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 66 of
66
with 100 items per page.
- W2023343410 endingPage "32" @default.
- W2023343410 startingPage "32" @default.
- W2023343410 abstract "The arts of large sub-Saharan African courts fit more readily into the familiar categories of European art history with regard to subject, purpose, and applicable method of investigation than the arts of small village polities do. In African courts, such as Dahomey, Asante, Benin, and Kuba, images, ceremonial insignia, and costume were displayed prominently to enhance the appearance of power. Such works share characteristics that distinguish arts of leadership elsewhere; they appear in more precious materials, more complex techniques, and more elaborate compositions than the arts outside the elite sphere. As in Europe, African court arts indicate the locus of authority, identify officials, and convey messages about the rights and powers of the elite to a wider public. The emblems worn or figures represented are meant to be recognized and understood. Oral traditions preserved by court archivists, combined with descriptions by European explorers, colonizers, and ethnographers of their encounters with African courts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, provide references to art of the past. As a result, the arts of these large courts are to a considerable degree accessible to familiar methods of iconographical and historical investigation. This can be demonstrated by a description of the steps taken by scholars to identify and date five wooden figures from the Kuba court. This example is of exceptional interest because of the quantity of twentieth-century documentation on Kuba court culture that permits the scholar to move beyond identification and dating to an interpretation of style in terms of cultural values. The Kuba kingdom, which occupied the territory between the Kasai and Sankuru rivers in Zaire (see map), became well known in Europe because the" @default.
- W2023343410 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2023343410 creator A5066182871 @default.
- W2023343410 date "1988-05-01" @default.
- W2023343410 modified "2023-09-26" @default.
- W2023343410 title "18th-Century Kuba King Figures" @default.
- W2023343410 cites W1495109537 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W1525971765 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W1547075691 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W1967573234 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W1969239611 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W1992713354 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2019115427 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2031141388 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2037118137 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2042532923 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2060735538 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2074347581 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2108105636 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2112053916 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2153805529 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2313274591 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W23659649 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2542556731 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2797213192 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2798801486 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2897827219 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W3022998385 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W3151841213 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W574904071 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W617186282 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W624707268 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W642964568 @default.
- W2023343410 cites W2531500744 @default.
- W2023343410 doi "https://doi.org/10.2307/3336440" @default.
- W2023343410 hasPublicationYear "1988" @default.
- W2023343410 type Work @default.
- W2023343410 sameAs 2023343410 @default.
- W2023343410 citedByCount "1" @default.
- W2023343410 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W2023343410 hasAuthorship W2023343410A5066182871 @default.
- W2023343410 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
- W2023343410 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
- W2023343410 hasConceptScore W2023343410C142362112 @default.
- W2023343410 hasConceptScore W2023343410C95457728 @default.
- W2023343410 hasIssue "3" @default.
- W2023343410 hasLocation W20233434101 @default.
- W2023343410 hasOpenAccess W2023343410 @default.
- W2023343410 hasPrimaryLocation W20233434101 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W1531601525 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W2748952813 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W2758277628 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W2899084033 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W2935909890 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W2948807893 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W3173606202 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W3183948672 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W2778153218 @default.
- W2023343410 hasRelatedWork W3110381201 @default.
- W2023343410 hasVolume "21" @default.
- W2023343410 isParatext "false" @default.
- W2023343410 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W2023343410 magId "2023343410" @default.
- W2023343410 workType "article" @default.