HISTORY OF ART 208 INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ART Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM TAARAB 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 1978 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.