Art History World Art Exam II 1. In this paper were going to look at four different cultures and two pieces of art work from each. These are cultures that we have discussed in class over this last semester and our found in the book Art a Brief History by Marilyn Stokstad and Michael W. Cothren . The four cultures of art that we are going to look at are Japanize‚ Chinese‚ Indian‚ and African. The Japanese started out in the beginning borrowing the Chinese and Korean culture‚ and blending
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The object chosen to analyze from the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba. It was created in the 16th century in Nigeria at the Court of Benin and is classified as a bone/ivory-sculpture.The culture involved is the Edo peoples. The medium used is ivory‚ iron‚ copper with dimensions H. 9 3/8 x W. 5 x D. 3 1/4 in. (23.8 x 12.7 x 8.3 cm). The accession Number is 1978.412.323. In simplistic terms the piece chosen is an ivory pendant depicting the image of the Queen Mother
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detailed and realistic depiction of a Queen Idia‚ the Benin ruler from the 16th century. Her expression is solemn and posture of the head is regal‚ she appears to be looking down on the viewer‚ no matter the angle the bust is viewed from. The tall crown also adds to her stature. The amount of care a specific posture indicates to me that she was a widely respected queen. The Brass Plaque Depicting the Oba Esigie is another brass work from the ancient Benin Kingdom‚ but it has such a different aesthetic
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COURSE GUIDE GST 201 COURSE GUIDE GST 201 NIGERIAN PEOPLES AND CULTURE Course Developer/ Writer Dr. Cyrille D. Ngamen Kouassi Department of Sociology/Anthropology Igbinedion University‚ Okada Benin-City Course Editor Prof. Bertram A. Okolo Faculty of Arts University of Benin Benin-City Programme Leader Prof. Yesufu Dean School of Arts and Social Sciences National Open University of Nigeria Victoria-Island‚ Lagos Course Co-ordinator Prof. Yesufu Dean School of Arts and Social Sciences National
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What was West Africa like in the 1500’s? Benin was a city that dated back to the eleventh century – and no relation to the West African nation of Benin of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Benin was a large city for its time – a walled city several kilometres wide in a forested region inland from where the Niger River emptied into the Atlantic. In the mid-1400s the ruler of Benin‚ Ewuare‚ built up his military and began expanding. Captives taken in battle he traded to the Portuguese. Benin’s
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Forestry and Bioenergy CDM Carbon Projects in Africa Lessons drawn from the CASCADe programme in Benin and Senegal Article under the direction of Françoise d’Estais and Robert Vergnes. Mme Françoise d’Estais is Program Manager at the United Nations Environment Programme in charge of carbon finance - francoise.destais@unep.org . Mr. Robert Vergnes is a member of the panel of experts to the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) of the UNFCCC‚ and Practice Leader of Energy & Climate Change
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MAT NO MGS0803060 DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BENIN‚ BENIN-CITY‚ EDO STATE‚ NIGERIA. OCTOBER‚ 2012. AGENCY THEORY AND ACCOUNTING CHOICE: ISSUES AND HALLENGES BY OMEJI IKECHUKWU MAT NO MGS0803060 DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BENIN‚ BENIN-CITY‚ EDO STATE‚ NIGERIA. OCTOBER‚ 2012.
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A "celebration of life" awaits when you participate in any of our Cultural Festival Tours‚ by which you can gain contact with the people of Nigeria that no ’ordinary’ trip can not afford. Argungu Fishing Festival at Sokoto Annual celebrations to mark beginning of the fishing season in Argungu‚ Kebbi State‚ is one of the most famous cultural festivals in Nigeria. Bare-hand fishing competitions among over 1‚000 Fishermen‚ equipped with a hand net and large gourd‚ is the main event of this cultural
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Picasso’s experiments with Cubism. The Yoruba people of Ife also influenced lost-wax cast metal art‚ also known as Benin Art after the people of Benin perfected the art to the highest quality. The Village craft workers had extensive knowledge of pottery and metalworking temperature changes to prevent the materials from cracking during the casting process. The guild workers in Benin City forged and cast clay and metal in wax casts that were shaped into pots‚ masks‚ and statues. After which they
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the islands diplomatically before 1982‚ then after the invasion‚ the chances practically disappeared’. However many people still believe that the island still belongs to Argentina and on the 25th anniversary of this war‚ Argentine President Nestor Kirchner stressed that Britain had won only a ‘colonial victory’ and that this was unacceptable in the eyes of the
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