Back Views [Vues de Dos]
Malick Sidibe, Malian, 1936 - 2016, Mali, Western Africa, Africa
2002
Gelatin silver print, glass, cardboard, tape, and string
Overall: 8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (21.2 x 14.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Olivia H. Parker and John O. Parker '58 Acquisition Fund
© Malick Sidibé
PH.2003.36
Geography/Culture
Africa, Western Africa, Mali
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Classification
Photograph
Africa
Not on view
Inscription
Signed and inscribed, in black ink, bottom left to right: Vues de dos.2002 Malick Sidibe MS 2003
Course History
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Winter 2015
AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
HIST 6.3, AAAS 88.2, WGST 38.2, Women and Gender in the African Diaspora, Rashauna Chenault, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009
Collectanea: The Museum as Hunter and Gatherer, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21, 2005-February 12, 2006.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 331, plate 112
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 33.
Provenance
The artist; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; sold to present collection, 2003.
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