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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: New African masquerades
    sub title: artistic innovations and collaborations
  name:
    name part: Fenton, Jordan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Homann, Lisa
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Maples, Amanda M.
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Youmbi, Hervé
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Dumouchelle, Kevin D.
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Ezeluomba, Ndubuisi
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Kamara, Ishmeal A.
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Kantoussan, Aimé
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Fofanah, Sheku
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: Nsa, Ekpenyong Bassey
    name part: Chief
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: Sanou, David
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: Youmbi, Hervé
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: artist,
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: New Orleans Museum of Art
    role:
      role term: host institution,
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  name:
    name part: Frist Art Museum (Nashville, Tenn.)
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  name:
    name part: Museum of Fine Arts (Saint Petersburg, Fla.)
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  name:
    name part: National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Catalogues d'exposition.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: 264 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: An exploration of contemporary African masquerade that reveals its cultural contexts, artistic innovations, and intersection with museum collection practices. By placing masquerade at the forefront of contemporary African art, this volume shows how masquerade is a dynamic and urban phenomenon shaped by shifting global concerns. Essays examine the lack of institutional recognition offered to present-day masquerade artists and the methods used to curate masquerade art at the museum level. An international group of scholars and artists explore the motivations and creative decisions of masquerade artists, highlighting their stories and providing a nuanced understanding of masquerade as a contemporary expression of human experience. This lavishly illustrated study includes more than 150 images, artist's biographies, in-depth analyses of masquerade ensembles in relation to themes of collaboration, economics, and meaning, and a discussion of the methodologies for ethically commissioning and acquiring masquerade art.
  table of contents: Forewords / Susan M. Taylor, Amanda M. Maples and Mohamed Abdallah Ly -- Introduction / Jordan A. Fenton, Lisa Homann, and Amanda M. Maples -- 1. Artist biographies. Meet Hervé Youmbi / Hervé Youmbi -- Meet Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa / Jordan A. Fenton -- Meet David Sanou / Lisa Homann -- Meet Sheku 'Goldenfinger' Fofanah / Amanda M. Maples, with Sheku Fofanah (and Alpha Kanu). -- 2. Ethics and methodology of commissions. Ethics and Methodology of Commissions: On Working with Master Artists and Community Partners / Hervé Youmbi -- "I Do this Only Because of You": Context, Commissioning, and Care when Working with Living African Artists / Jordan A. Fenton -- "It is Not Permitted": Commissioning Masquerade Ensembles for Audiences Abroad / Lisa Homann -- Re-Facing Objects: On the Ethics and Mobilities of Sierra Leone Masquerade / Amanda M. Maples. -- 3. Contemporary Masquerade Ensembles. Collaborations: Visages de masques VI, VII, IX / Hervé Youmbi -- Art and Economics Interwoven: Contemporary Masquerades by Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa / Jordan A. Fenton -- Innovating and Recalibrating Masquerade Practice: David Sanou in the Studio of André Sanou / Lisa Homann -- Mobility: On Freetown Masquerades and the Newness of Now / Amanda M. Maples. -- 4. Institutional partnerships. Masquerades in Casamance and Eastern Senegal: Sharing Senegalese Heritage through Museum Partnerships / Aimé Kantoussan -- Masquerades Endure: The Case of Sierra Leone and a Partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs / Ishmeal Abu Kamara. -- 5. Potential ramifications. Ethical Stewardship of African Art Collections in North American Museums / Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba -- Dancing Over Boundaries: Performing New African Masquerades at the National Museum of African Art / Kevin D. Dumouchelle.
  note: Jordan A. Fenton, Lisa Homann, Amanda M. Maples, and Hervé Youmbi ; edited by Amanda M. Maples, with Jordan A. Fenton and Lisa Homann ; with contributions by Kevin D. Dumouchelle, Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, Ishmeal A. Kamara, and Aimé Kantoussan.
  note: Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, held at the New Orleans Museum of Art, April 4-August 10, 2025; Frist Art Museum, October 10, 2025-January 4, 2026; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Peterburg, mid-September, 2026-January 2027; and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 19-September 26, 2027.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-257) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: fw-----
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sanou, David
      name part: 1969-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Youmbi, Hervé
      name part: 1973-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chief
      name part: Nsa, Ekpenyong Bassey
      name part: 1973-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Fofanah, Sheku
      name part: 1976-
  subject:
    topic: Masks in art
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Art, African
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Masks
    geographic: Africa, West
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Masquerades
    geographic: Africa, West
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Artists
    geographic: Africa, West
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Masques dans l'art
    genre: Expositions
  subject:
    topic: Art africain
    genre: Expositions
  subject:
    topic: Masques
    geographic: Afrique
    genre: Expositions
  subject:
    topic: Mascarades
    geographic: Afrique
    genre: Expositions
  subject:
    topic: ART / General
  subject:
    topic: Masks in art
  subject:
    topic: Art, African
    topic: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Art, African
  subject:
    topic: Masks
  subject:
    topic: Masquerades
  classification: N8222.M39 F468 2025
  classification: 709.6
  identifier: 9780300279955
  identifier: 0300279957
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240726
    record change date: 20250802185244.3
    record identifier: in00005653810
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng