المهرجان الثقافى لشعب جبال النوبة - بالخرطوم صور فقط لا غير

Quote: by Christopher Agostino The Southeast Nuba people of Sudan, Africa practiced an extraordinary tradition of bodyart, available to see primarily in two books: “People of Kau” by Leni Riefensthal (1977) and “Nuba Personal Art” by James C. Faris (1972). Although the first one contains the more accomplished photography, it is Faris’ book that yields the most information to a bodypainter. Through detailed visual analysis of their bodyart and interviews with the artists over three field sessions among the Nuba from 1966-1969, Faris decodes the visual language and, more valuably for a working body artist, explains the methodology and principles that led to such a stunning variety of designs. It is the most insightful and rigorous study of bodypainting (tribal or otherwise) that I’ve read.