Word: african
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your article on African Negro sculpture [TIME, May 10] you refer to the "wholly abstract mask [see cut, left] used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe...
...London last week, politicians, bankers and bureaucrats, answering an insistent jangle of telephones, turned pale at what they heard. South African gold shares broke wide open on the stock exchange, tumbled more than $300 million. Winston Churchill augustly gloomed: "A great world statesman has fallen, and with him his country will undergo a period of anxiety and perhaps a temporary eclipse...
...date idea for a motion picture which avoids politics, sex, religion, divorce, double beds, drugs, disease, poverty, liquor, Senators, bankers, cigarettes, wealth, Congress, race, economics, art, death, crime, childbirth and accidents (whether by airplane or public carrier); also the villain must not be an American, European, South American, African, Asiatic, Australian, New Zealander, or Eskimo ... No dogs allowed. Apply...
There was one profound and devout difference between the Africans and modern sculptors: the former believed implicitly in the ends of their art; they made their carvings for a definite purpose. Like the Navajo sand painters (TIME, Feb. 23), the African sculptors were magicians, who carved figures and masks of tribal gods for magic uses...
...almost half a century, African Negro sculpture has been much admired by connoisseurs. British Critic Roger Fry unhesitatingly called it "great sculpture-greater, I believe, than any we have made . . ." Photographs of 40 such primitive carvings, collected by Copenhagen's Carl Kjersmeier and published in book form last week (Wittenborn; $5.50), gave laymen a chance to see what the shouting was about...