Schlagwort: research

Zur Kunst Afrikas

Bücherlisten

Magazine

Wikipedia

  • Liste zu Contemporary African Art auf der englischsprachigen Wiki (Definitions of contemporary African art, Exhibitions (chronologisch), Collection of Essays, Publications, Magazines, Databases, See also: By country)
  • Liste zur Kunst Südafrikas

My Career

Finally, I want to analyze my study routine during the last 6 years. To provide you with some background info, I want to add that in general I am a fairly good student with some exceptions. Either I get straight As, or I will do moderate. I have never failed throughoutly or had to repeat a class. My weakness is definately that I am a slow learner and that I cannot deal with studying the exact same thing over and over again (ie. using flash cards only for vocabulary won’t work for me). My mind is network-based and I am a visual/haptic learner.

I want to put down here what did help me improve my learning: (no particular order)

  • tables, charts, schedules: I try to put everything I learn into a table. The creation of the table alone and thinking about organzing knowledge will help me studying the subject.
  • draw a comic based on the subject to study
  • create mind-maps every so often
  • Add-ons for Firefox (Perapera-kun), surfing the net in languages I have not yet fully mastered
  • join social networking sites of target language (renren.com, weibo.com)
  • make many native-speaking friends
  • cook dishes from target language country, try to use original recipe
  • use colourful markers, highlight notes
  • do summaries of your own notes from class
  • organize folders

Fractions of Truth

For AWWs interaction with the government-

by Skypeing over the Internet, talk to foreigners he breaks the commitments he had to make.

In the very worst case, he might get executed as an exempel- I don’t believe they actually set him free without anypunishment if he really did break the law so severely as he wants to make most westeners believe.

What will happen after he got killed?

What is chinese law saying about his failures?

Chinese-African Connections

  • Wifredo Lam/ 林飛龍 (Lín Fēilóng), geboren am 2. Dezember 1902 Sagua la Grande, Kuba; † 11. September 1982 Paris, Frankreich
  • Pascale Marthine Tayou, geboren 1967 in Yaoundé, Kamerun. EXPO 2010 Shanghai
  • Kendell Geers (Südafrika) hosts his first solo art exhibition in mainland China at Galleria Continua. In „Fin de Partie,“ Geers attempts to connect his artistic experience with local Chinese culture.
  • Michael MacGarry: „Hu Jintao and the Scramble for Africa“, 2007, Okiyi mask auf US Ghillie suit, South African Art Now p.104
  • Cài Gúoqiáng 蔡国强 : Saraab/Mirage https://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2011/12/06/22897065.html „ساي جوو تشانغ: سراب“ (December 5, 2011 – May 26, 2012) https://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/18050/cai-guo-qiang-saraab-at-mathaf-arab-museum-of-modern-art-qatar.html

Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibitions Open In South Africa, Canada

Diverese: Zhang Huan: „12 Square Metres“, 1994. Travelled to the West in 1990s, performing (fish and oil honey covered)

Penny Siopis: Ambush, 2008 – Hokusai Fishermans wife dreams, octopus

  • disappearing Liu Bolin https://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/15618/liu-bolin-hiding-in-new-york-performances.html (planking, urban camouflage)
  • Cài Gúoqiáng 蔡国强 : Saraab/Mirage : ‚homecoming‘ is a series of stones from quanzhou in which arabic inscriptions of tombstones are inscribed from quanzhou’s historic arab community. the rocks wind their way from the museum’s courtyard into the atrium, symbolizing their homecoming.
  • Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld: Global Stone https://www.globalstone.de/documents/Illius_ad_Kueka.pdf ; https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/stadtleben/installation-global-stones-stonehenge-imtiergarten/3862550.html

Massys, Quentin : The Moneylender and his Wife

I saw this picture in a presentation about Money in Art yesterday. I saw some curiosa in the background, and I wonder if there actually is what I think I saw;
a chinese string of 文 (貨幣) wen (coin, cash) on a red rope.
a chinese bronze mirror

Massys, Quentin : Moneylender and Wife
Massys, Quentin : Moneylender and Wife
Käsch-Schnur
TLV-Bronzespiegel

back from the UK

I finished my censorship paper. I’m thinking about uploading it, hence there’s quite few information on this particular topic. Highly recommendable nevertheless is an exhibition catalogue on Ukiyo-e and censorship by Sarah E. Thompson and H. D. Harootunian, „Undercurrents in the floating world“ (1991).

I spent three weeks in the UK, mainly to drink tea and play with the dog of my parent’s friends living there. My last days were in London, where I literally lived at the V&A/ National Art Library. It’s great and if you have the chance going to London, don’t miss the V&A. Notes for the next visit:
*For observing objects closely, you can actually preorder several objects from the British Museum. (at least one month in advance)
*DO NOT fly Ryanair.

This semester, I’ll spent some time with African Art. I’ll have to prepare papers and PPP for
*Ife Art and
*a selection of works by Willie Bester.

Still pending:
*Last makeup on Shino and Raku
*wait for reply on kambodian buddha

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UPDATE 14.09.2010

I signed on Scripd and uploaded my paper. You can find it here:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/37425115/Zensurstempel-auf-yakusha-e-von-den-Kansei-Reformen-bis-zur-Meiji-Zeit-1791-1868

UPDATE 17.04.2012

I quit my Scripd Account but uploaded it on my blog here:  2010: Zensurstempel auf yakusha-e von den Kansei-Reformen bis zur Meiji-Zeit (1791-1868) (.pdf)

Bachelor thesis

in order of accepting the idea on getting my BA wasn’t too bad after all, i finally decided to make up a schedule of ALL courses i have visted during the last (fruitful, beloved, erudite) 7 semesters. first, why didn’t i start this earlier? second, i found out i started writing papers just during the last semester; before, i took every course as a lecture. i loved it that way, but it might get me into bureaucracy trouble.

new work ahead

what i should be officially working on in the next few months…

before xmas:
– max imdahl: seated buddha (finish)
– p. m. of „visionen vom weltende“
– dec 18th „bodhi day“ party

early 2010:
– 役者絵の歌舞伎 (again…)
– 분청사기 and my tea bowl
– geeta kapur/ amrita sher-gil and „westernization“ of indian art

pleasure:
– search a topic on post-1949-china. maybe tea-linked? i saw a nice book on the social impact of 茶馆 in china, but where… eh… :\
– write the korean tea ceremony book review
– yixing… 宜兴? what’s a yixing pot? what kind of kettles are else there?
– get a %&§$ing job!!!

again late for chinese class

oh, dear. i hate getting up at 6am… so i got up at 7am, decided to skip again and work at home. -.-
anyways. i wanted to post here since i held my presentation. my professor wasn’t so satisfied i think. she yelled, „japanese labelling of korea tea bowls has to stop!“ and then she said very quickly some korean words for labelling bowls that i could not quite made out. i will go to her today to ask again.
also, i think my main failure was that i was researching for „茶碗“ (japanese) instead of „bowls“ (korean word).
i read already that the bowls were peasant, common bowls (which isn’t an insult or something romantic… just the fact, used for tea, rice, soup, cidre…) and that the japanese used them ONLY for tea.

so, my second failure based on this wrong research was to present no buncheong wares, but wares from japanese museums only. of course, i could not find any „teabowls“ in the korean museums. i should have searched for „bowl“+“16c“+“korea“+ maybe buncheong, but im not sure if it is buncheong (but, then, what could it be else? it has some semi-seladonish glaze, but it’s definately not seladon…)

aya… i feel like a freshmen again…