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Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry Brittany Sheldon

Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry By Brittany Sheldon

Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry by Brittany Sheldon


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Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry: Visualizing Culture explores womens tradition of wall painting, or bamblse, in northern Ghana by delving into the history of bamblse and how it has changed over time. This book explores women artists experiences, knowledge, and technical processes.

Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry Summary

Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry: Visualizing Culture by Brittany Sheldon

Many existing studies present womens artistry as a consistent and enduring element of Indigenous culture, emphasizing overarching systems of artistic practices, aesthetic goals, and symbolic repertoires. Brittany Sheldon complicates this image within Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry: Visualizing Culture by emphasizing variations in individual training, knowledge, experience, techniques, skills, and ideas that inevitably exist among artists and within their communities. This book traces womens wall painting, known as bamblse, in northern Ghana. Based on extensive observations and numerous interviews, Sheldon digs into women artists experiences and knowledge and describes their technical processes. This book delves into the history of bamblse, how this tradition has changed over time, and how it is tied to understandings of gender, social hierarchy, cultural identity, and memory. Rather than portraying the tradition as static, Sheldon demonstrates how women adapt their artistry to changing circumstances, including shifting preferences, incentives, markets, and audiences. With its vivid descriptions and detailed discussions, this book brings women artists and their wall paintings to life for readers, and, as such, it is relevant to scholars and students of African art history, anthropology, and gender studies.

Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry Reviews

Brittany Sheldons detailed narrative takes readers into communities in northern Ghana where women collaborate to paint the walls of their homes. Based on years of close observation, participation, and discussions with women artists, she shares the history of their practice, and dozens of photographs document how the artists have maintained traditional approaches while introducing new elements. The use of locally significant symbols illustrates womens roles and proper behavior. Their art is also intertwined with local architecture, as the designs reinforce exterior walls and beautify interior rooms. The book is a significant contribution to African womens art, their agency as artists, and the history of their practice.

-- Kathleen Sheldon, University of California, Los Angeles

About Brittany Sheldon

Brittany Sheldon is lecturer at Cal Poly Humboldt in the Art + Film Department.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Bamblse: History and Identity

Chapter 2: House Tours

Chapter 3: Artistic Processes: Plastering and Painting

Chapter 4: Designs

Chapter 5: Artistry Today: Decline

Chapter 6: Artistry Today: Adaptation and Resurgence

Appendix: Interview List

Glossary

Bibliography

About the Author

Additional information

NGR9781666905113
9781666905113
1666905119
Northern Ghanaian Womens Artistry: Visualizing Culture by Brittany Sheldon
New
Hardback
Lexington Books
2023-11-29
254
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