Pair of Headdresses (Tyi Wara Kunw)

African artists, patrons, and critics conceive and evaluate their local arts by using standards or criteria of beauty that are typically agreed upon within the originating community...

Cat. 1: Of Crests, Farmers, and Antelopes

What factors mattered to Africans in representing themselves through their arts? How are these visual forms to be understood in the broader spectrum of time and space? In many ways these issues speak to the larger ones of what it means to be human. Important here is how one portrays oneself as opposed to others. However, there are other questions in play as well: concerns as varied as the...