Africa: Arts & Architecture
- Africa Nature Photography
A comprehensive collection of stunning pictures of African nature and wildlife subjects that you can download, with additional information on each subject - a must for nature lovers. Other services include stock photography with a stock list that can be viewed.
- Ancient Art: Egypt
The works here demonstrate the basic principles of Egyptian sculpture in its symbolic formality.
For over three thousand years the Egyptians adhered to a prescribed set of rules as to how a work of
art in three dimensions should be presented.
- Architecture of Islam
These recources are provided by the Australian National University server which contains over 1.2
gigabytes of data which are not available elsewhere. It offers a variety of image collections and
small presentations, all of which deal in some way with Art History.
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Architecture & Architectural Sculpture of the Mediterranean Basin
Includes images from North Africa.
- African Music Resources
While there is a lot of different music, one of mankind's biggest passions is the music of Africa. This site gives you a menu of articles, reviews, artists and labels.
- The Bedu Masquerade
BEDU is a plankmask which is used throughout the Bondoukou region of C™te d'Ivoire,West Africa. Although it resembles other plankmasks from Burkina Faso, Mali or northern Ghana, Bedu is a unique, regional creation.
- Classical Architecture of
the Mediterranean Basin
Includes data for Algeria, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
- African Art (UVA)
African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning. This electronic exhibition catalog contains a
number of photographs from the Bayly Art Museum's recent exhibition of African art.
Related materials to be offered in the future include an exhibition of African masks.
- African Odyssey Interactive
The African Odyssey Interactive (AOI) site is aimed towards promoting the interactive exchange of ideas,information, and resources between artists, teachers, and students of African art and culture.
- African Pottery
Forming and Firing Techniques: A Virtual Slide Show (Christopher Roy)
A Multimedia show of different stages in making African pottery.
- Art and Life in Africa Project (Christopher Roy & L.
Lee McIntyre)
This is a CD-ROM based program on African art, based on The Stanley Collection at The University
of Iowa Museum of Art and supplemented by additional images from important collections across the
country organized on the theme of "Art and Life in Africa". Objects will be placed in the context for
which they were created in the lives of African peoples. (Christopher Roy & L. Lee McIntyre)
- Egypt and Art (Richard Deurer)
This site includes comprehensive resources of photographs on some of the ancient Egyptian monuments and artifacts; pictures and descriptions of the gods and some of the most frequently used symbols; Glossary of Egyptian Mythology, Hieroglyphs and Egyptian Kings.
- An Eternity of Forest: Paintings by Mbuti Women
This work is maintained by the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive which focuses on the vibrant barkcloth art of the Mbuti women Mbuti women of the Ituri Forest of northeastern Zaire. The exhibit has over 30 of these works as well as Mbuti music is now accessible on-line
- G.I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeast Nigerian Art and Culture
An online archive of over 300 photographs of Southeastern Nigerian Art. The photos were taken in the 1930s by the late Dr. G.I. Jones of University of Cambridge. Most of the images capture Igbo masquerades in performance. They are of interest to any student of Nigerian ethnology or art history. I created the online archive this summer while conducting research with the Jones materials archived at Cambridge.
- HasaGhana
HasaGhana provides pictures of various modern African art and includes the ability to purchase certain artwork.
- Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology (U.
Memphis)
The Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology is dedicated to the study of the art and culture of
ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition, and community education.
- Images of Masks: Africa
Images of masks, makers of masks, masquerade troupes, and relevant resources from around the world are indexed in this server.
- International African Diaspora
Festival-Expressions
'95
The Caribbean Cultural Center, a not for profit cultural arts organization
based in New York City, is hosting the fourth international conference
Cultural Diversity Based on Cultural Grounding as past of the annual African
Diaspora International Festival Expressions '95.
- Marrakesh Express
This is Marrakesh Express, your on-line Moroccan rug and pillow gallery and shop. Maintained by
Susan Schaefer Davis, an anthropologist who had worked and lived in Morocco off and on for the last 29
years.
- Sokari Douglas Camp: Play & Display-
Masquerades of Southern Nigeria
It features the work of the Nigerian born sculptor Sokari Douglas Camp and
a considerable body of new work she is showing at the Museum of Mankind in
London. The show lasts from 28 September 1995 - 17 March 1996.
- Sukuma Museum of Tanzania (Mark H.C. Bessire)
The Sukuma people of Tanzania live in an area called Usukuma which is located to the west
and south of Lake Victoria. This web site provides series of articles and pictures that documents different issues of Sukuma culture.
- SUNO's African Art Project
Over half of The SUNO Foundation collection relates specifically to the art and culture of Zaire and was donated by Drs. William and Jane Bertrand. In 1979, artist and collector Ida Kohlmeyer donated 43 African art pieces. Pascal Imperato donated fourteen African art objects from Mali in 1993 and its most recent acquisition has been the Povey Collection of African textiles.
- TAMARIN: Art and Africa Online
The TAMARIN is part of a private initiative to help discover one of the many fascinating faces of the African continent. Exhibits include paintings, sculptures and photographs which have a common denominator: Africa and its surroundings. Some items in the exhibitions are for sale. In order to situate African art in its context, we will take advantage of the marvelous tool offered by the WEB, and include information on related web sites.
- Yoruba and Akan Art
Cutting to the Essence, Shaping
for the Fire, an experimental
on-line catalog of an exhibit first
presented at the Lakeview Museum of
Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois
in 1994.
This is an
illustrated essay-exhibit by
Michael Conner on Yoruba
art in wood and metal; and
Shaping for the Fire, a
similar exploration of Akan
goldweights by Martha
Ehrlich.
- World Art Treasures
This illustrated "Pilgrimage to Abydos", tries to retrace for the user the
very perception and
emotions of the pilgrimage undertaken by Seti I himself and his people some
3300 years ago, and which
is at the origin of the temple of Abydos, a grandiose ex-voto open once and
then closed for ever.
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Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture
In the early sixties a dynamic new art movement, also known as Shona Sculpture,
started in Zimbabwe.
- Universes in Universe
A comprehensive list of links to online exhibitions, projects, symposiums, research and publications focusing on various regions throughout Africa and the world.
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