African Dream Machines

Style, Identity and Meaning of African Headrests

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Art History
Cover of the book African Dream Machines by Anitra Nettleton, Wits University Press
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Author: Anitra Nettleton ISBN: 9781868146123
Publisher: Wits University Press Publication: October 1, 2007
Imprint: Wits University Press Language: English
Author: Anitra Nettleton
ISBN: 9781868146123
Publisher: Wits University Press
Publication: October 1, 2007
Imprint: Wits University Press
Language: English

African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of ‘art’ objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of style and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. Among the artefacts made by southern African peoples, headrests were the best known. Anitra Nettleton’s study of the uses and forms of headrests opened up a number of art-historical methodologies in the attempt to gain an understanding of form, style and content in African art objects. Her drawings of each and every headrest encountered become a major part of the project.

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African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of ‘art’ objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of style and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. Among the artefacts made by southern African peoples, headrests were the best known. Anitra Nettleton’s study of the uses and forms of headrests opened up a number of art-historical methodologies in the attempt to gain an understanding of form, style and content in African art objects. Her drawings of each and every headrest encountered become a major part of the project.

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