Discuss the conceptual dichotomy of civilization and the wilderness in African systems of thought, and the significance of civilization and/or wilderness for Mande art and artistic practice. Discuss Kongo views of supernatural power, and the embodiment of this power in the ‘personhood’ of Kongo minkisi. Anderson and Kreamer capture the essence of the African idea…
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A comparison between the Arts of the High Renaissance and that of the Eighteenth Century
The term High Renaissance is used to refer to the blooming of the visual arts during the period of the Italian Renaissance. High Renaissance, which flowered toward the end of the fifteenth century and lasted a few decades, was a period that witnessed the creation of great works of art and architecture. With Rome as…