World on the horizon :
Swahili arts across the Indian Ocean /
Prita Meier, Allyson Purpura ; contributors: Edward A. Alpers [and 18 others]

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Alpers, Edward A., contributor
Purpura, Allyson, writer of added text,
Meier, Prita, writer of added text,
Fowler Museum at UCLA
National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Krannert Art Museum
Language(s)
English
Published
©2018
Champaign, Illinois : Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, [2018]
Subjects
Art > Indian Ocean Region.
Art > Africa, Eastern.
Art > Africa, East.
Summary
The multiauthored book accompanying the World on the Horizon exhibition organized by Krannert Art Museum is the first interdisciplinary study of Swahili visual arts and their historically deep and enduring connections to eastern and central Africa, the port towns of the western Indian Ocean, Europe, and the United States. At once exhibition catalogue and scholarly inquiry, the publication features eighteen essays in a mix of formats - personal reflections, object biographies, as well as more in-depth critical treatments - and includes never before published images of works from the National Museums of Kenya and Bait Al Zubair Museum in Oman. By approaching the east African coast as a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence, these essays offer compelling new perspectives on the situated yet mobile and deeply networked social lives of Swahili objects. Moving between the broader structural relations of political economic change to more intimate narratives through which such change is experienced, the essays throw light on the ways in which the material fabric of the arts structure Swahili people's sense of self and community in an ever-changing world of oceanic and terrestrial movement. Exhibition: Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, USA (31.08.2017-24.03.2018)
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Catalog from an exhibition organized by Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, held at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, September 1, 2017-March 24, 2018; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 9-September 3, 2018; and Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, October 21, 2018-February 10, 2019
Physical Description
384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
ISBN
1883015499
9781883015497
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