A pocket book that aims at sharing with a large audience the great journey of Afro-Berber arts from the Eastern High Atlas to the Niger River; where emerges a visual culture both millennium and contemporary, extending from the Maghreb to Sahel countries.
About the Editor
Bert Flint is an eminent collector, anthropologist, and expert in the “Afro-Berber” arts, a category that he patiently forged and grew to incarnate, notably through the Musée Tiksiwin, which he founded in Marrakech in 1996. The culmination of a lifetime of research, this museum, where it is not uncommon to meet the founder strolling through his own collection, continues to be open to the public.
Bert Flint’s connection with Morocco began in 1957, when he arrived in the country in the wake of Independence. That is to say driven by a sense of renewal and the context of cultural openness. It was there that this Dutch student of Hispanic languages and literature was able to carve a path for himself, and he soon discovered traces of Arabo-Andalusian civilisations in his ethnographic studies of Moroccan art.
About the Publisher
With a variety of formats, monograph, thematic or collective books, Zamân Books publications (historically born out of a generation of marxists and postcolonial intellectuals) cultivate a spirit of activist/archivist. Committed to the general fieldwork study of Arab, African and Asian modernities, our books seek to constitute authentic data and theoretical tools; at the service of an emancipated history of visual arts, their geographical and conceptual journeys. Eventually to play the role of an interface between different spheres of knowledge and art theory: academic knowledge, artistic knowledge, vernacular knowledge, digital knowledge…
