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Senufo Sculpture from West Africa and its precursor [exhibition] set a precedent for the exhibition and study of African art that prevailed for decades.
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi
January 1, 2010
Rock paintings and engravings are Africa’s oldest continuously practiced art form.
Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
October 1, 2000
Contrary to popular views about precolonial Africa, local manufacturers were at this time creating items of comparable, if not superior, quality to those from preindustrial Europe.
Alexander Ives Bortolot
October 1, 2003
Southern African rock paintings and engravings often combine geometric forms with images of humans and animals, in what some scholars have argued represents hallucinatory trance imagery.
Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
October 1, 2000
The institution of slavery existed in Africa long before the arrival of Europeans and was widespread at the period of economic contact.
Alexander Ives Bortolot
October 1, 2003
African patrons and entrepreneurs quickly picked up the new technology, which circulated and flourished through local and global networks of exchange. Photographers, clients, and images moved across the region often traversing both national and ethnic boundaries.
Giulia Paoletti
March 1, 2017
The discovery of vast quantities of West African ivory, called “white gold” in Europe, transformed the nature of African-Portuguese trading in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Emma George Ross
October 1, 2002
With the rise of the transatlantic trade through the seventeenth into nineteenth centuries, ivory became among the most valuable African natural resources desired by Western industry.
Nichole N. Bridges
March 1, 2009
Until recently, the Apollo 11 stones were the oldest known artwork of any kind from the African continent.
Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
October 1, 2000
In the contemporary postcolonial era, the influence of traditional African aesthetics and processes is so profoundly embedded in artistic practice that it is only rarely evoked as such.
Denise Murrell
April 1, 2008