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Resources and Links
The following links are sites selected by the department of African Art History at Ohio University as helpful research points. The list is non-comprehensive. Please notify us of any additions that may help the list become more complete.
 

Art directories

 

 


http://www.kulturbox.de/univers/e_intart.htm

Art History
http://www.kulturbox.de/univers/africa/e_hist.htm

Institutions/Associations
http://www.kulturbox.de/univers/us_afro/e_ins.htm

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html

Arts Council of African Studies Association
http://h-net.msu.edu/~artsweb/H-AfrArts

 

 

Museums

 
 

 

Africa: The Art of a Continent, Guggenheim Museum, New York City
http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/africa/

Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta
http://www.emory.edu/CARLOS/african.gal.html

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning (An Electronic Exhibition Catalog)[Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html

Images of Power and Identity: On-line Catalog Description [National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/africart/collect/images.htm

Play and Display: Masquerades of Southern Nigeria [The Sculpture of Sokari Douglas Camp]
http://www.arc.co.uk/sokari/home.html

Bedu Is My Lover [The Green Centre for Non-Western Art at the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton, England]
http://www.netpoint.be/abc/bedu/

Nubia: Its glory and its people (Exhibition Brochure, 1987) [Oriental Institute, University of Chicago]
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NUB/NUBX/NUBX_brochure.html

Vanished Kingdoms of the Nile: The Rediscovery of Ancient Nubia (Exhibition Brochure, 1992) [Oriental Institute, University of Chicago]
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NUB/NUBX92/NUBX92_brochure.html

Mali: Hier et aujourd'hui des poteries et des femmes; [Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneve, Suisse]
http://anthropologie.unige.ch/~elia/maesao/intro.html

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/ethno_holdings.html#africa

The Madagascar Museum Society
http://squash.la.psu.edu/~plarson/mms/homepage.html

An Eternity of Forest: Paintings by Mbuti Women
http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/mbuti/

 

On-line Courses and Curricular Resources

 

 

The Prehistoric Puzzles Ceramic study site lets you make your own African pot and demonstrates how knowing about pottery is useful to Africanarchaeologists. Java and Shockwave plug-ins needed for some activities.
http://wisdomtools.com/puzzles/ceramics/ceramics.html

Art of Africa, Lisa Aronson, Skidmore College, N.Y.
http://don.skidmore.edu/academics/laronson/AH_207/AfricanArtHistory/AfricanArtinHistory.html

Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/uvamesl/

Fetish/Power/Art: Student Art Exhibit, Bayly Art Museum
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~grd3m/fetish.html#initiation

Art of Central Africa [A. Bourgeois, Governors State University]
http://www.govst.edu/users/gbourge/syllabus/ART527.htm

Mali Interactive [RiceUniversity]
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive/index.html

African Art and the Virtual Museum: An Undergraduate Course [University of Virginia]
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/rela345.html

Art and Life in Africa [University of Iowa]
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart

African Art Project [Southern University at New Orleans]
http://www.gnofn.org/~zaire/

The Baobab Project: Sources and Studies in African Visual Culture [Harvard University]
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/DuBois/baobab/baobab.html

African Pottery Forming and Firing Techniques: A Virtual Slide Show [University of Iowa]
http://www.uiowa.edu/~intl/links/rft/pottery.html

Olu Oguibe's Home Page [Contemporary African and African American Art]
http://satie.arts.usf.edu/~ooguibe/

African Sculpture (GIF) [University of Pennsylvania Musueum]
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Sculpture/menu_Sculpt.html

African Odyssey Interactive
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/odyssey.html

Music

 

 

 

Eric Charry's Home Page (African Music and Percussion)
http://www.uncg.edu/~charrye/

Interact and Learn (Drumming)
http://www.goodnet.com/~eb32571/

Mbira Home Page
http://www.tiac.net/users/smurungu/home.html

International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Zimbabwe
http://www.ru.ac.za/ilam.html

Africassette (CDs and cassettes from Africa)
http://www.africassette.com/~rsteiger

Village Pulse (CDs from the Senegambia)
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/villagepulse/outpost.html

C. K. Ladzekpo's Home Page (Ewe master drummer)
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/

African Music Archive, Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Mainz University, Germany
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender

South African Journal of Musicology
http:/www.und.ac.za/und/samus/

 

General Art Sites with Africana Content

Denmark's Images of Africa Festival
http://www.djembe.dk/ioa/uk/

The Art Brief
http://pw1.netcom.com/~the-iaa/artbrief.html

OAN (Books on the arts of Africa, Oceania, Southeast Asia, and the Americas)
http://www.ambook.org/bookstore/oanartbooks/

African Imprint Library Services
http://www.africanbooks.com./ails1.htm

Tribal Art: Van Rijn Documentation Center
http://www.tribal-art.com/

Unknown Artist: Yaka Circumcision
http://206.204.3.133/dir_nii/mdi_YakCir.html

Maps of Africa
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/africa.html

Rough Guides - Travel Guides
http://www.roughguides.com/RG_WWW/morebks/westafr/wa_cmron.html

Bushmen on the Web
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Borenstein_Group/

Art History Resources: Part 4 Non-European Art
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks3.html#Africa

 

Search Engines

Ohio University Internet Directories and Search Engines
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/electres/netref.htm

SIRIS: Search Input Smithsonian Institution Libraries Catalog
http://www.siris.si.edu/index.html

Theodore (Ted) S. Foster, African Studies bibliographer
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/afrsub.htm

 

Style Maps

Cameroon
http://www.govst.edu/users/gbourge/syllabus/StyleMap1.htm

Gabon
http://www.govst.edu/users/gbourge/syllabus/StyleMap2.htm

Congo Basin Statuettes
http://www.govst.edu/users/gbourge/syllabus/StyleMap3.htm

Congo Basin Masks
http://www.govst.edu/users/gbourge/syllabus/StyleMap4.htm