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Painting Ethiopia
The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw
Raymond A. Silverman with Neal Sobania and Leah Niederstadt
Schooled in the fifteen-hundred-year-old painting tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and ever sensitive to its narrative and iconographic requirements, Ethiopian artist Qes Adamu Tesfaw has managed to transcend the formulas that tradition requires him to embrace. By giving up the priesthood and turning to painting full-time, the artist has also found the freedom to venture outside the realm of religious subject matter to produce work that chronicles historical events both inside and outside Ethiopia, as well as scenes that depict the everyday life of his native country. Adamu's remarkable oeuvre includes saints on horseback, soldiers gathered in historic battles, Solomon and Sheba's courtship, and Ethiopians attending church or praying at mosques.
Raymond A. Silverman is professor of art history and African studies at the University of Michigan. Neal Sobania is professor of history and director of international education at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Leah Niederstadt is a doctoral student in social anthropology at Oxford University.
Reviews:
"This highly approachable yet solidly erudite volume engages the viewer immediately. It is impossible to do justice to the sheer visual delights found in the lavishly reproduced paintings, of which more than 40 appear in this superbly crafted catalogue. This is a fine volume that would enrich any library." - Multicultural Review
Table of Contents:
Forewords
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography
A Brief Account of My Life / Qes Adamu Tesfaw
Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw / Raymond A. Silverman
Catalog / Neal Sobania, Leah Niederstadt, Raymond A. Silverman
References Cited
Contributors
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Pub Date:
2005
ISBN:
PAPER:
0-9748729-2-X
9780974872926
Price:
Paper: $30.00
Subject Listing:
African Art
Bibliographic information:
120 pp., 78 color illus., 10" x 10.5"
Distributed for:
Fowler Museum at UCLA
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