Poetry

Object Details

Abdoulaye Ndoye, b. 1951, Senegal

Description

Artist book distinguished by its cover ornamented with script and a central motif of radiating lines reminiscent of a topographical map. Attached leather straps are designed to secure the folio when closed. The book opens into a long, accordion-fold composition with script and topographic imagery rendered on both sides of the pages in black, brown and tan hues.

Exhibition History

Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 22, 2013-February 23, 2014; Fowler Museum at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, April 19-September 14, 2014; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, October 15, 2015-March 9, 2016

Published References

Milbourne, Karen E. 2013. Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa. New York: The Monacelli Press; Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, p. 1172, nos. 145-146.

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Credit Line

Gift of the artist and museum purchase

2009

Object number

2010-2-1

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Copyright

© 2009 Abdoulaye Ndoye

Type

Book and Manuscript

Medium

Paper, pigment, leather

Dimensions

Tented: 25.4 x 533.4 x 36.8 cm (10 x 210 x 14 1/2 in.)

Unfolded flat 36.8 x 914.4 cm (14 1/2 x 360 in.)

Book cover: 38.1 x 27.9 cm (15 x 11 in.)

Geography

Senegal

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Record ID

nmafa_2010-2-1

Metadata Usage (text)

Usage conditions apply

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys78e8a87d1-e3f5-4762-901d-4e2f8cc9685c