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Oceanic headrests : sleep with the ancestors = Appuie-nuque océaniens : dormir avec les ancêtres / by Meyer, Anthony J. P.,1956-(CARDINAL)226715; Gurfinkel, Michel.; Galerie Meyer.(CARDINAL)289292;
Includes bibliographical references (page 92).
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Headrests; Wood-carving; Wood sculpture, Pacific Island;
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African dream machines : style, identity and meaning of African headrests / by Nettleton, Anitra C. E.(CARDINAL)216516;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-444) and index.Headrests and art -- A matter of style, or why style matters -- Methodology, position and limitations -- The geographical and chronological distribution of the columned headrest -- Authenticity and history -- East African headrests : identity, form and aesthetics -- Tracing histories : Central and Southern African connections -- Not just a curious beauty : the anatomy of meaning in useful objects."African Dream Machines has been in the making for fifteen wars, starting with research on the traditional wood-carving of the Shona- and Venda-speaking peoples of Zimbabwe and South Africa. Among the artefacts made by Southern African peoples, headrests were the best known and daring a year spent in Europe in 1975-1976, Anitra Nettleton discovered museum stores full of unacknowledged masterpieces made by speakers of numerous Southern African languages. Her subsequent study of the uses, and forms of headrests opened up a number of art-historical methodologies in the attempt to gain University of the Witwatersrand in 1990 enabled African art objects. A Council Fellowship from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990 enabled the write to develop an archive in the form of nates, photographs and stretches of each headrest she encountered. Many examples from South African collections were added from the early 1990s onwards, expanding the field vastly. Nettleton executed drawings of each and every headrest encountered, which become a major part of the project in their own right."--Jacket.
Subjects: Headrests; Wood-carving;
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Teens of style [sound recording] / by Car Seat Headrest (Musical group);
Performed by Car Seat Headrest.
Subjects: Rock music;
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Sleeping beauties : the Jerome L. Joss collection of African headrests at UCLA / by Dewey, William Joseph.(CARDINAL)217171; Cosentino, Henrietta,1941-(CARDINAL)206724; Feldman, Jerome,1944-(CARDINAL)189432; McCallum, Toshiko M.(Toshiko Miyabayashi),1943-(CARDINAL)206723; University of California, Los Angeles.Fowler Museum of Cultural History.(CARDINAL)204789;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-213).
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Joss, Jerome L. (Jerome Lionel), 1909-; University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History; Headrests; Headrests; Headrests; Headrests; Wood-carving;
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Wooden dreams : East African headrests from the Eduardo López Moreno collection / by Moreno, Eduardo López,author,collector.(CARDINAL)835768; Naudin, Thierry,1947-editor.(CARDINAL)835767;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239).The tribes of Kenya and Uganda -- The tribes of South Sudan -- The tribes of Ethiopia -- The tribes of Somalia -- Tanzania."Also known as neckrests or pillows, headrests are valuable and very personal objects that are indispensable to everyday life. They are made to sleep on to rest the neck, to sit on, and to protect the elaborate coiffure of their owners. At first sight, they appear to be devoid of any symbolic content. This functional utility has confined them through history to the realm of mere objects. Headrests are not that simple though. They transcend their material purpose to become something more. In many instances, their design, inherent beauty, illustration, technical mastery, and uses give them a multi-purpose value and a multi-layered meaning. They are objects with ritual and magical intent concealed inside their utilitarian function. Headrests can be flaunted as status symbols that differentiate chiefs from ordinary people, rich from poor, diviners from healers, farmers from shepherds, and sedentary from nomadic. The book features full-colour pictures of very rare and fine headrests that have never been published before. Short texts introduce selected pieces among the 230 works that have particularly interesting, well-documented backgrounds. This book is a journey through ethnicity, anthropology, aesthetics, creativity, tradition, and spirituality a journey to a part of Africa that materializes through a simple artifact that sometimes dreams to become art: a dream that starts with resting the neck on a piece of wood." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Moreno, Eduardo López; Headrests; Wood-carving; Headrests; Art, African;
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Twin fantasy [sound recording] / by Car Seat Headrest (Musical group),composer,performer.; Toledo, Will,composer,producer,performer.; Dalby, Seth,instrumentalist.; Ives, Ethan,instrumentalist.; Katz, Andrew(Musician),instrumentalist.;
Produced by Will Toledo.Car Seat Headrest (Will Toledo, Seth Dalby, bass ; Ethan Ives, guitar ; Andrew Katz, drums) ; with additional musicians.Parental advisory; explicit lyrics.
Subjects: Rock music.; Alternative rock music.; Lo-fi (Rock music); Rock music;
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Making a door less open [sound recording] / by Car Seat Headrest (Musical group),composer,performer.;
Produced and mixed by Will Toledo and Andrew Katz.Car Seat Headrest (Will Toledo, vocals, synths, organ ; Andrew Katz, drums, drum programming ; Ethan Ives, guitars ; Seth Dalby, bass guitar).
Subjects: Alternative rock music.; Lo-fi (Rock music); Rock music.; Rock music;
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Visions of Africa : the Jerome L. Joss collection of African Art at UCLA / by University of California, Los Angeles.Fowler Museum of Cultural History.(CARDINAL)204789; Ross, Doran H.(CARDINAL)135504;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-159).
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Joss, Jerome L. (Jerome Lionel), 1909-; University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History; Art, Black;
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Teens of denial [sound recording] / by Car Seat Headrest (Musical group),composer,performer.;
Car Seat Headrest (Will Toledo, vocals, guitars, organ, piano, mellotron ; Ethan Ives, bass, vocals, guitars, vibrato switch on organ ; Andrew Katz, drums, mixed percussion, mellotron, vocals) ; with accompanying musicians.Produced by Steve Fisk.Recorded at Soundhouse and Avast! Studios.
Subjects: Rock music.; Alternative rock music.; Rock music;
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The art of Southern Africa : the Terence Pethica collection / by Klopper, Sandra,author,interviewer.(CARDINAL)212344; Nettleton, Anitra C. E.,author.(CARDINAL)216516; Pethica, Terence,interviewee,collector.(CARDINAL)783865;
Includes bibliographical references."The Art of Southern Africa provides important new insights into the historical processes and cultural contexts that informed the production of carving traditions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century communities living in this region. It includes ground-breaking research on a variety of art forms, notably the style and iconography of headrests and the figurative works associated with initiation school, indigenous patrons, and new foreign markets. A collaborative project between the private collector, Terence Pethica, and authors Sandra Klopper and Anitra Nettleton, The Art of Southern Africa celebrates the artistry of ritual and household objects, while at the same time exploring the complex values and ideas expressed in and through them."--Jacket.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art; Sculpture, African.; Wood sculpture, African.; Sculpture, Black; Wood-carving;
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