Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Zimbabwe: Talking Stones

Zimbabwe: Talking Stones

Here is the incredible story of the most powerful stable of artists since the Renaissance, working in stone in the hills of Zimbabwe. Given a place to exhibit, dissuaded from producing "airport" art and encouraged instead to speak to their ancestors, kept at a distance from the commercializers and Coca Colarizers of art, members of the Shona tribe and itinerant workers from every part of southern Africa have taken to stone sculpture as naturally as to traditional rhythms. The result has been an extraordinary outpouring of tribal spirits liberated from the stone in which they dwelt, a safeguarding of African history in a profusion of world-class masterpieces that rival and often exceed the best yet seen of art from Africa. (58 minutes)

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Item#: JOJ3341
Copyright date: ©1992
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-9385-8


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