MUSEUMS AND THEIR VOICES A CONTEMPORARY STUDY OF THE BENIN BRONZES WRITTEN BY Charlotta Dohlvik SUPERVISORS Staffan Lundén and Peter Davis Master’s Dissertation‚ May 2006 International Museum Studies‚ Museion‚ Göteborg University 1 ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................................................... 4 1. BACKGROUND ...........................................................................
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Altar to the Hand (Ikegobo) of Ezomo Ehenua 18th–19th century Nigeria; court of Benin Brass Here we have an interesting piece from modern day Nigeria. Press play for a formal description‚ the historical background‚ and an explanation of the meaning of various aspects of this object. Formal Description: This sculpture is truly a remarkable work in many senses. As a whole‚ it is sculpted in the round. The figures on top of the piece are also sculpted in the round. The figures surrounding
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Read carefully Reading 2.6‚ ‘Works of Art from Benin City’‚ in Book 3 Chapter 2 and look closely at Plate 3.2.27‚ Plate showing four sixteenth century brass plaques from Benin’‚ in the illustration book. With close attention to both‚ discuss reasons why the ownership and location of the art of Benin have been controversial and continue to be so. The Places which home the artwork of Benin have and continue to cause controversy. They did not always as they did in the late nineteenth century languish
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Avant-Grade Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English‚ to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative‚ particularly with respect to art‚ culture‚ and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo‚ primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism‚ as distinct from postmodernism. Postmodernism
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Discussion of the Avant-Garde Characteristics of Samuel Beckett’s Play The term ’avant-garde’ means literally in French the ’fore guard‚’ the part of the military that goes before the main force. (Calinescu‚ 1987) In this ’going before‚’ the avant-garde of a military force not only exposes itself to greater risks from enemy positions (which may or may not be known)‚ but it also can avail itself of greater strategic and tactical opportunities if it finds the enemy unprepared. As a term of art to describe
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Jackson Pollock’s ultimate fan boy came in the form of Clement Greenberg‚ art critic extraordinaire of the 20th century. He loved the formal language of abstraction and found manifestations of his definition of art in Pollock’s work. His contemporary‚ Harold Rosenberg‚ however‚ would probably have been standing in the corner shaking his head at Greenberg’s enthusiasm‚ trying to rival it with his own definitions and excitement. To Rosenberg‚ painting evolved into action and feeling with a near disregard
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1920’s French Avant-Garde Film The avant-garde cinema defies custom of the Hollywood narrative. It is called “the art‚ experimental‚ independent film”. This avant-garde films challenge to the main current in commercial films. Especially‚ 1920’s movements of the avant-garde film emerged as a strong part of the art culture in Europe. For instance‚ the Dadaism and the abstract film seek extremely abstract and emotional images. Also‚ the impression and the surrealism express subjective conscious
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1904). Plate 3.2.25: The display of Benin bronzes at the Horniman Museum is viewed now as works of art instead of pieces of anthropology as they were in 1903 a ‘war booty’. Bronze commemorative heads representing ancient sovereigns‚ ceremonial costumes‚ insignias and royal personal objects which marked the Oba’s position‚ naturally figure at the heart of the exhibition in Paris. The national museum in Britain‚ displays with the full agreement of the Benin people. Plate 3.2.26: Horniman gave it
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Chapter One The Art of Benin I I. Introduction A. Cultural Encounters Between Europe and Benin from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century 1. The trade in objects in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 2. The imperial confrontations of the late nineteenth century 3. The engagement with ideas about art in the twentieth century B. European Contacts with Benin Europeans first became aware of the existence of Benin through Portuguese traders in the fifteenth century. The accounts left behind indicate
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Benin once known as Dahomey (until 1975) is one of Africa’s most well structured democracies. Within it holds a slender piece of territory stretching North for about 400 miles. The river that constructs a portion of Benin’s Northern margin with Niger is the Niger River. It is lined to the east by the Nigeria northwest by Burkina Faso and west by Togo. Benin’s official capital is Porto Novo. Cotonou is not only Benin’s largest city but it’s also its largest chief port and its de facto administrative
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