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Extractions: Fon iron image of Gun, the god of iron and war, Dahomey. Museum Pottery head found at Sokoto, Nigeria. Height 45cm Bambara dance wood headdress in the form of an antelope West Africa Scholars divide the visual arts of West Africa into three broad areas: the western Sudan, the Guinea Coast, and Nigeria. This is done partly to enable the outsider to comprehend the diversity of styles and traditions within the region, while recognizing that there are themes common to all of the areas. This is the name conventionally given to the savanna region of West Africa. It is an area dominated by Islamic states situated at the southern ends of the trans-Saharan trade routes. The sculpture here is characterized by schematic styles of representation. Some commentators have interpreted these styles as an accommodation to the Islamic domination of the area, but this is probably not an adequate explanation since Islam in West Africa has either merely tolerated or actually destroyed such traditions while exerting other influences. Among the better-known sculptural traditions of the western Sudan are those of the following peoples.
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Extractions: LIGHTING CANDLES FOR HALF A CENTURY by Tony Zurlo, (13) 64-66 Most Nigeria RPCVs may not know or remember the name, but he was there at the beginning. An education officer with USAID when he greeted Sargent Shriver in April 1961 at Lagos airport, Brent Ashabranner was sold on the Peace Corps idea from the start. He volunteered to escort Shriver around Nigeria to meet with government leaders. "It just seemed to be assumed that I would carry on the Peace Corps business after Shriver and his team left, and I did." As Acting Representative (Director) in Nigeria, Ashabranner traveled the country from Lagos to Kano and into the bush making site surveys of the schools receiving volunteers, checking on housing, school scheduling, and other conditions prior to the Nigeria I arrival in September 1961. In 1962, Dr. Samuel Proctor became the first permanent Director, and Ashabranner returned to a staff position in Washington, DC.
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Extractions: www.denisdutton.com Introduction Universalism in Traditional Aesthetics This universalist conception therefore regards art as a natural category of human activity and experience. This is not in itself a new idea, but goes back to the greatest naturalist of Greek philosophy, Aristotle. He argued that we could expect to find similar arts (by which he also meant technologies) being invented in independent human cultures all over the world. In discussing various ways in which the state has been divided into classes by cultures of the Mediterranean, Aristotle makes his view clear ( Politics 1329b25) in an aside: Practically everything has been discovered on many occasions or rather an infinity of occasions in the course of ages; for necessity may be supposed to have taught men the inventions which were absolutely required, and when these were provided, it was natural that other things which would adorn and enrich life should grow up by degrees. As the existence of these arts and technologies sprang from a shared human nature, Aristotle further believed that their basic forms would also display similarities: so genres of spoken narrative and literary arts would everywhere evolve comedic and serious or tragic forms, there would be carvings, pictures, or other representations, and that, as with the development of Greek tragedy, these art forms would become more complex over time.
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Extractions: "Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas" International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) advances the art and science of planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining dams to develop the world's water resources in a technically safe, financially sound and ecologically and socioeconomically sustainable manner. Home More about ICOLD on Dams Publications ... WHAT ABOUT HYDROPOWER? WHAT ABOUT FOOD PRODUCTION? TECHNICAL EVENTS FROM British Dams Society British Dams Society informs that the details and registration form for the European club and BDS conference are available on the site www.britishdams.org FROM SANCOLD excerpt of the e-mail from J.R. Williamson to Secretary General
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Extractions: A frican art - Ceremonial sculpture masks , and crafts produced by African tribal cultures , as well as by the African cultures of colonial and post-colonial periods. Generally African art means sub-Saharan art, with the cultures of Africa's northern parts typically referred to as Egyptian and North African. Making generalizations about the visual culture of any group of people is a crude endeavor, especially with a culture as diverse as Africa's. With this thought in mind, know that this survey, as any must be, is tremendously limited in its breadth and depth. Examples of African art: Ife (Yoruba), Nigeria, Shrine Head , 12th century - 14th century, terra cotta , 12 x 5 3/4 x 7 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Mali, Bougouni or Dioila area, Bamana peoples, Mother and Child , 15th-20th century, wood height 48 5/8 inches (123.5 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Nigeria, Edo peoples, Court of Benin, Pendant Mask: Iyoba , 16th century, ivory iron copper height 9 3/8 inches (23.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See mask and pendant Nigeria, Edo peoples, Court of Benin
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