African Art and Agency in the Workshop

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Contents Acknowledgments vii INTRoDUCTIoN Rethinking the Workshop: Work and Agency in African Art \ Till Förster and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir 1 The Contributions to This Book \ Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster 24 pArt 1. production, Education, and learning 1. Grace Dieu Mission in South Africa: Defining the Modern Art Workshop in Africa \ Elizabeth Morton 39 2. Follow the Wood: Carving and Political Cosmology in oku, Cameroon \ Nicolas Argenti 65 3. Masters, Trend-makers, and Producers: The Village of Nsei, Cameroon, as a Multisited Pottery Workshop \ Silvia Forni 91 4. An Artist’s Notes on the Triangle Workshops, Zambia and South Africa \ Namubiru Rose Kirumira and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir 111 pArt 2. Audience and Encounters 5. Stitched-up Women, Pinned-down Men: Gender Politics in Weya and Mapula Needlework, Zimbabwe and South Africa \ Brenda Schmahmann 125 6. Rethinking Mbari Mbayo: osogbo Workshops in the 1960s, Nigeria \ Chika Okeke-Agulu 154 7. Working on the Small Difference: Notes on the Making of Sculpture in Tengenenge, Zimbabwe \ Christine Scherer 180 8. Navigating Nairobi: Artists in a Workshop System, Kenya \ Jessica Gerschultz 207 vi Contents pArt 3. patronage and Domination 9. Lewanika’s Workshop and the Vision of Lozi Arts, Zambia \ Karen E. Milbourne 233 10. Artesãos da Nossa Pátria: Makonde Blackwood Sculptors, Cooperatives, and the Art of Socialist Revolution in Postcolonial Mozambique \ Alexander Bortolot 252 11. Frank McEwen and Joram Mariga: Patron and Artist in the Rhodesian Workshop School Setting, Zimbabwe \ Elizabeth Morton 274 12. “A Matter of Must”: Continuities and Change in the Adugbologe Woodcarving Workshop in Abeokuta, Nigeria \ Norma H. Wolff 298 pArt 4. comparative Aspects 13. Work and Workshop: The Iteration of Style and Genre in Two Workshop Settings, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon \ Till Förster 325 14. Apprentices and Entrepreneurs: The Workshop and Style Uniformity in Sub-Saharan Africa \ Sidney Littlefield Kasfir 360 CoDA Apprentices and Entrepreneurs Revisited: Twenty Years of Workshop Changes, 1987–2007 \ Sidney Littlefield Kasfir 385 Contributors 399 Index 401 ...