Images of Congo
Subtitle: Anne Eisner's art and ethnography, 1946-1958
By: edited by Christie McDonald ; essays by Suzanne Preston Blier ... [et al.] ; comments from painters Louis Finkelstein and Joan McD. Miller ; a preface by Abiola Irele ; [art photography by John T. Hill].
Contributors: McDonald, Christie, 1942-; Blier, Suzanne Preston.; Hill, John T.; Putnam, Anne Eisner.
Publisher: 5 Continents
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Milan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Putnam, Anne Eisner -- Criticism and interpretation.; Pygmies -- Congo (Democratic Republic); Congo (Democratic Republic) -- In art.
Genres: In art.
Description: 159 pages : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-156).
Table of contents: title: Anne Eisner's art and ethnology, 1946-58 / Christie McDonald; title: Drawing on the forest : Anne Eisner at Epulu / Rosanna Warren; title: Ethnography, literature and art : making sense of colonial life in the Ituri Forest / Christie McDonald; title: Modernism and ethnology in the Ituri : Anne Eisner, Colin Turnbull, and the Mbuti / Enid Schildkrout; title: Mapping the Ituri : Mbuti bark-cloth paintings and the canvases of Anne Eisner / Suzanne Preston Blier; title: Pygmy images and the making of Madami, a memoir by Anne Eisner Putnam and Allan Keller (1954) / Christraud M. Geary; title: Beyond the images : hearing Anne Eisner Putnam's African world / Kay Kaufman Shelemay; title: Commentary about Anne Eisner art from early critics to painters Louis Finkelstein and Joan McD. Miller; title: Selected quotations from reviews during the early years when Anne Eisner exhibited; title: "Sight-reading" Anne Eisner's work / Louis Finkelstein; title: Anne Eisner : notes from a painter's point of view / Joan McD. Miller.