HISTORY OF ART 208
INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ART
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Siti Bint Saad (Tanzania) (1880-1950?)
Women’s War of 1929 (Ogu Umunwanyi, sometimes known as Aba Women’s Riots)
Uche Okeke (Nigeria), Women Riot, 1965
Oil on board, 72 1/6 x 48 1/16”
Mahmoud Said (Egypt),
La Femme aux boucles d’or
(The Woman with Golden Tresses), 1933
Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 84 cm
Mahmoud Said, Nude with Gray Curtain (Nu au rideau
gris), 1934
Oil on canvas, 19¾ x 29¼ in.
Mahmoud Said (Egypt),
La Fille à la ceinture dorée
(The Girl with the Golden Belt), 1945
Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 84 cm
Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Snake Charmer, 1879
Oil on canvas, 32.4 x 48 in.
“Orientalism is not a mere political subject matter or field that
is reflected passively by culture, scholarship, or institutions; nor
is it a large and diffuse collection of texts about the Orient; nor
is it representative and expressive of some nefarious “Western”
imperialist plot to hold down the “Oriental” world. . .it is an
elaboration not only of a basic geographical distinction (the
world is made up of two unequal halves, Orient and Occident)
but also of a whole series of “interests” which, by such means
as scholarly discovery, philological reconstruction, psychological
analysis, landscape and sociological description”
“Rather than the manufactured clash of civilizations, we need
to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that
overlap, borrow from each other, and live together in far more
interesting ways than any abridged or inauthentic mode of
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understanding can allow.”
Irma Stern (South Africa, 1894-1966),
Three Swazi Girls, 1925, Oil on canvas
Irma Stern, Zanzibar Woman, 1930
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20.5 in.
Irma Stern, Girl in a Print Dress, 1939
Oil on canvas, 27 x 24 in.
Irma Stern, Maid in Uniform, 1955
Oil on canvas, 27 x 24 in.
Grace Kwami (Ghana, 1923-2006),
A Girl in Red (Portrait of Gladys Ankora, Achimota), 1954
Oil on canvas, 29 x 21 in.
Irma Stern, Maid in Uniform, 1955
Oil on canvas, 27 x 24 in.
Grace Kwami in her studio, 1960
(right)-Portrait of a Friend, 1952
Oil on canvas
Billy Monk (South Africa), The Catacombs, 23 December 1967, 1967,
Pigment ink on archival paper, Edition of 12, 42 x 63cm
Zainab Reddy (South Africa), The Human Race (or
Raja), 1962
Oil on canvas, 182 x 90 cm
Dumile Feni (South Africa), The Classroom,
1965
Charcoal and conte on paper, 90.1 x 38 in.
Gladys Mgudlandlu (Xhosa/South Africa 1925-1979),
Discipline, c. late 1960s. Oil on board, 12.2 x 15.9 in.