{"title":"New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 1: Behind The Mask: African Art History in a Pandemic Era","authors":"Victoria L. Rovine","doi":"10.1162/afar_a_00676","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An introduction is presented in which author discusses articles on topics including focuses on N95 masks which have none of panache of a fine masquerade performance, but they have gained the cultural force of a powerful masquerade society, drawing authority from spiritual and political sanction.","PeriodicalId":45314,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN ARTS","volume":"55 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFRICAN ARTS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00676","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
An introduction is presented in which author discusses articles on topics including focuses on N95 masks which have none of panache of a fine masquerade performance, but they have gained the cultural force of a powerful masquerade society, drawing authority from spiritual and political sanction.
期刊介绍:
African Arts is devoted to the study and discussion of traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, African Arts readers have enjoyed high-quality visual depictions, cutting-edge explorations of theory and practice, and critical dialogue. Each issue features a core of peer-reviewed scholarly articles concerning the world"s second largest continent and its diasporas, and provides a host of resources - book and museum exhibition reviews, exhibition previews, features on collections, artist portfolios, dialogue and editorial columns. The journal promotes investigation of the connections between the arts and anthropology, history, language, literature, politics, religion, and sociology.