Kongo across the waters.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville University press of Florida 2014Description: XX, 458 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 978-0-8130-4915-1
  • 978-0-8130-4945-8
Subject(s):
Contents:
15. Kongo cuisine and the middle passage in terms of peanuts / Birgit Ricquier -- 16. Africa is what you make it: Kongo in African American folk arts / Jason Young -- Focus 12. Kongo ideas and aesthetics in African American ceramics -- 17. The Kongo connection: Central African baskets and their American kin / Dale Rosengarten -- Focus 13. Continuing the legacy of lowcountry coiled baskets -- 18. Kongo music and dance at new Orleans's Congo square / Freddi Williams Evans -- Focus 14. Remembering Congo Square -- 19. Nineteenth-century Americans shed light on Kongo / Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi -- Focus 15. Kongo in the engravings of Pieter van Der Aa -- 20. "Seeing Kongo": a lens on African American landscapes / Grey Gundaker -- Focus 16. Kongo afterlife in Florida -- 21. From Tidewater to Tampa: yard activation in the Kongo-Atlantic tradition / Kellim Brown -- Catalogue section 6. Conjure, baskets, canes, and vessels -- Part III: Kongo in contemporary art --
22. Kongo inspiration in contemporary world art / Susan Cooksey and Robin Poynor -- Focus 17. Kongo memory in the Afro-Atlantic -- 23. Kongo squared: the art of Renee Stout / Michael D. Harris -- 24. Minkisi and Dikenga in the art of Radcliffe Bailey: multiplied exponentially / Carol Thompson -- 25. Kongo resonance in the paintings of Edouard Duval-Carrie / Donald Cosentino -- 26. Jose Bedia: Crossing the waters / Judith Bettelheim.
Catalogue section 2. Ivories and artifacts -- 8. Renewal and reinterpretation in Kongo religion / John M. Janzen -- 9. On Nsambi pluriarcs / Remy Jadinon -- Focus 8. praetorius displays Kongo instruments, 1619 -- Catalogue section 3. Figures, masks, and musical instruments -- 10. Meaning and aesthetics in Kongo art / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Focus 9. The Master of Kasadi -- 11. A touch of exoticism: "European fashion" in Kongo / Julien Volper -- Focus 10. The Land of the Dead -- Catalogue section 4. Grave figures -- Part II: Kongo in the Americas -- 12. Kongo and the archaeology of early African America / Christopher C. Fennell -- Focus 11. Crossing the South -- 13. West Central African spirit practices in Annapolis, Maryland / Kathryn H. Deeley, Stefan F. Woehlke, Mark P. Leone, and Matthew Cochran -- Catalogue section 5. Archaeological material -- 14. Africanisms in American English: critical notes on sources and methodology / Jacky Maniacky --
Part I: Kongo in Africa -- 1. The culture of Mbanza Kongo / Linda Heywood and John Thornton -- Focus 1. King Pedro VII of Kongo (r. 1923-55) -- 2. By the sword and the cross: power and faith in the arts of the Christian Kongo / Cecile Fromont -- Focus 2. Capuchin didactic documents -- 3. Rock art as a source for the history of the Kongo Kingdom / Geoffroy Heimlich -- Focus 3. the Kongo cross across centuries -- 4. Kongo, North America and the slave trade / Jelmer Vos -- Focus 4. Images of the Middle Passage -- 5. The Kongo Kingdom and European diplomacy / Linda Heywood and John Thornton -- Focus 5. Portraits of Kongo diplomats -- Catalogue section 1. Religious artifacts -- 6. Kongo in the age of empire / Hein Vanhee and Jelmer Vos -- Focus 6. Antonio, Mambouc of Nzobe in the 1890s -- 7. Transatlantic souvenirs: a dialogue of slavery and memory in Kongo-inspired relief sculpture / Nichole N. Bridges -- Focus 7. Depicting the slave trade --
Summary: Explores the transatlantic connections between Central Africa and North America over the past 500 years in the visual and performing arts of both cultures.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

15. Kongo cuisine and the middle passage in terms of peanuts / Birgit Ricquier -- 16. Africa is what you make it: Kongo in African American folk arts / Jason Young -- Focus 12. Kongo ideas and aesthetics in African American ceramics -- 17. The Kongo connection: Central African baskets and their American kin / Dale Rosengarten -- Focus 13. Continuing the legacy of lowcountry coiled baskets -- 18. Kongo music and dance at new Orleans's Congo square / Freddi Williams Evans -- Focus 14. Remembering Congo Square -- 19. Nineteenth-century Americans shed light on Kongo / Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi -- Focus 15. Kongo in the engravings of Pieter van Der Aa -- 20. "Seeing Kongo": a lens on African American landscapes / Grey Gundaker -- Focus 16. Kongo afterlife in Florida -- 21. From Tidewater to Tampa: yard activation in the Kongo-Atlantic tradition / Kellim Brown -- Catalogue section 6. Conjure, baskets, canes, and vessels -- Part III: Kongo in contemporary art --

22. Kongo inspiration in contemporary world art / Susan Cooksey and Robin Poynor -- Focus 17. Kongo memory in the Afro-Atlantic -- 23. Kongo squared: the art of Renee Stout / Michael D. Harris -- 24. Minkisi and Dikenga in the art of Radcliffe Bailey: multiplied exponentially / Carol Thompson -- 25. Kongo resonance in the paintings of Edouard Duval-Carrie / Donald Cosentino -- 26. Jose Bedia: Crossing the waters / Judith Bettelheim.

Catalogue section 2. Ivories and artifacts -- 8. Renewal and reinterpretation in Kongo religion / John M. Janzen -- 9. On Nsambi pluriarcs / Remy Jadinon -- Focus 8. praetorius displays Kongo instruments, 1619 -- Catalogue section 3. Figures, masks, and musical instruments -- 10. Meaning and aesthetics in Kongo art / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Focus 9. The Master of Kasadi -- 11. A touch of exoticism: "European fashion" in Kongo / Julien Volper -- Focus 10. The Land of the Dead -- Catalogue section 4. Grave figures -- Part II: Kongo in the Americas -- 12. Kongo and the archaeology of early African America / Christopher C. Fennell -- Focus 11. Crossing the South -- 13. West Central African spirit practices in Annapolis, Maryland / Kathryn H. Deeley, Stefan F. Woehlke, Mark P. Leone, and Matthew Cochran -- Catalogue section 5. Archaeological material -- 14. Africanisms in American English: critical notes on sources and methodology / Jacky Maniacky --

Part I: Kongo in Africa -- 1. The culture of Mbanza Kongo / Linda Heywood and John Thornton -- Focus 1. King Pedro VII of Kongo (r. 1923-55) -- 2. By the sword and the cross: power and faith in the arts of the Christian Kongo / Cecile Fromont -- Focus 2. Capuchin didactic documents -- 3. Rock art as a source for the history of the Kongo Kingdom / Geoffroy Heimlich -- Focus 3. the Kongo cross across centuries -- 4. Kongo, North America and the slave trade / Jelmer Vos -- Focus 4. Images of the Middle Passage -- 5. The Kongo Kingdom and European diplomacy / Linda Heywood and John Thornton -- Focus 5. Portraits of Kongo diplomats -- Catalogue section 1. Religious artifacts -- 6. Kongo in the age of empire / Hein Vanhee and Jelmer Vos -- Focus 6. Antonio, Mambouc of Nzobe in the 1890s -- 7. Transatlantic souvenirs: a dialogue of slavery and memory in Kongo-inspired relief sculpture / Nichole N. Bridges -- Focus 7. Depicting the slave trade --

Explores the transatlantic connections between Central Africa and North America over the past 500 years in the visual and performing arts of both cultures.