RESSOURCES
RELIGIOUS POSTERS
Popular Religious Imagery and Posters - Nigeria
* Krings, Matthias (2009): ‘Marke “Osama”: Über Kommunikation und Kommerz mit Bin-Laden-Bildern in Nigeria.’ In: Peripherie. Vol. 113. 31-55.
* Schmidt, Wendelin (2005): ‘Populärkultur und visuelle Kommunikation: Plakate-“Kunst” in Ghana and Nigeria.’ In: Kramer & Schmidt, eds.: Plakate in Afrika. Frankfurt a.M.: Museum der Weltkulturen. 27-41.
* Ukah, Asonzeh F.K. (2002): ‘Reklame für Gott - Religiöse Werbung in Nigeria.’ In: Tobias Wendl, ed.: Afrikanische Reklamekunst. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer. 148 - 153
* Ukah, Asonzeh F.K. (2005): ‘Religiöse Propaganda in Afrika.’ In: Kramer & Schmidt, eds.: Plakate in Afrika. Frankfurt a.M.: Museum der Weltkulturen. 83-88.
* Ukah, Asonzeh F.K. (2008): ‘Roadside Pentecostalism: Religious Advertising in Nigeria and the Marketing of Charisma.’ In: Critical Inventions. No. 2. 125-141
Popular Religious Imagery and Posters – Africa (for comparison)
* Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie (1994): Senegal Behind Glass: Images of Religious and Daily Life. New York: Prestel.
* Gore, Charles & Joseph Nevadomsky (1997): ‘Practice and Agency in Mammy Wata Worship in Southern Nigeria.’ In: African Arts. Vol. 30(2). 60-69 & 95.
* Hofmeyr, Isabel (2001): ‘Bunyan in Africa: Text and Transition.’ In: Interventions. Vol 3(3). 322-35.
* Hofmeyr, Isabel (2004): The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim’s Progress. Princeton: UP.
* Meyer, Birgit (2002): 'Pentecostalism, prosperity and popular cinema in Ghana.' In: Culture and Religion. Vol. 1. 67 — 87.
* Meyer, Birgit (2003): ‘Visions of Blood, Sex and Money: Fantasy Spaces in Popular Ghanaian Cinema.’ In: Visual Anthropology. Vol. 16(1). 15-41.
* Meyer, Birgit (2004): ‘Praise the Lord: Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana’s New Public Sphere.’ In: American Ethnologist. Vol. 31(1). 92-110.
* Meyer, Birgit (2006): ‘Religious Revelation, Secrecy and the Limits of Visual Representation.’ In: Anthropological Theory. Vol. 6. 431-53.
* Meyer, Birgit (2008): ‘Powerful Pictures: Popular Christian Aesthetics in Southern Ghana.’ In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vol. 76(1). 82-110.
* Miescher, Giorgio & Dag Henrichsen (2004): African Posters: A Catalogue of the Poster Collection in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Basel: Afrika Bibliographien.
* Roberts, Allen F. & Mary Nooter Roberts (2000): ‘Paintings Like Prayers: The Hidden Side of Senegalese Reverse-Glass Image/Text.’ In: Research in African Literatures. Vol. 31 (4). 76-96.
* Roberts, Allen F. & Mary Nooter Roberts (2008): ‘Flickering Images, Floating Signifiers: Optical Innovation and Visual Piety in Senegal.’ In: Material Religion. Vol. 4(1). 4-31.
* Robinson (1979): ‘The Tehran Nizami of 1848 and Other Qajar Lithographed Books.’ In: Jennifer M. Scarce, ed.: Islam in the Balkans / Persian Art and Culture of the 18th and 19th Century: Papers arising from a Symposium held to celebrate the World of Islam Festival at the Royal Scottish Museum of Edinburgh 28th – 30th July 1976. Edinburgh: The Royal Scottish Museum. 61-74.
* Rush, Dana (1999): ‘Eternal Potential: Chromolithographs in Vodunland.’ In: African Arts. Vol. 32(4). 60-75 & 94-96.
Islamic Popular Imagery and Posters – North Africa & Levant (for comparison)
* Balaghi, Shiva and Lynn Gumpert (2003) Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution. London: IB Tauris.
* Centlives, Pierre & Micheline Centlivres-Demont (1997): Imageries Populaires en Islam. Geneve: Georg Editeur. (French)
* Khenchelaoui, Zaim (2000): ‘Quelques Remarques sur la Place et sur L’Iconographie de ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani dans le Folklore Algerien.’ In: Journal of the History of Sufism. Vol. 1-2. 431-441.
* Kriss, Rudolf & Hubert Kriss-Heinrich (1960): Volksglaube im Bereich des Islam. (Popular Belief in the Sphere of Islam.) Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz. (German)
* Milstein (1999): ‘The Stories and their Illustrations.’ In: Milstein et.al., eds.: Stories of the Prophet: Illustrated Manuscripts of Qisas Al-Anbiya. Costa Mesa, C.A.: Mazda Publishers.
* Puin, Elisabeth (2008): Islamische Plakate: Kalligraphie und Malerei Im Dienste des Glaubens. Dortmund: Verlage für Orientkunde.
* Schienerl, Peter W. (1985b): ‘Zur Darstellungsweise Ali's auf alteren agyptischen Buntdrucken (Regarding Depictions of Ali in older Egyptian Colour Prints).’ In: Annals of the Naprstek Museum. No. 13. 178-86. (German)
* Schienerl, Peter W. (1985a): ‘Volkstümliche al-Buraq Darstellungen aus Ägypten. (Popular Al-Buraq Depictions from Egypt).’ In: Archiv für Völkerkunde. No. 39. 181-97. (German)
* Schienerl, Peter W. (1986): ‘Koranisches Erzählgut im Spiegel volkstümlicher Buntdrucke aus Ägypten. (Quranic Narrative Motifs in Popular Egyptian Colour Prints) In: Baessler-Archiv. Neue Folge. Band XXXIV. 305-332. (German)’
Islamic Popular Imagery and Posters in Asia (for comparison)
* Elias, Jamal J. (2009): ‘Islam and the Devotional Image in Pakistan.’ In: Barbara Daly Metcalf, ed.: Islam in South Asia in Practice. Princeton: UP. 120-132.
* Freitag, Sandria B. (2007): ‘South Asian Ways of Seeing, Muslim Ways of Knowing: The Indian Muslim Niche Market in Posters.’ In: Indian Economic Social History Review. Vol. 44(3). 297-33.
* Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim (2006): The Friends of God: Sufi Saints in Islam: Popular Poster Art from Pakistan. Oxford & Karachi: Oxford UP.
* Harjot, Oberoi (1994): The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition. Delhi: Oxford UP. (discussion of role of devotion to saints and shrines among Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs)
* Pinney, Christopher (2009): Photos of the Gods: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India. University of Chicago: UP. (primarily on Hindu images)
* Smith, Daniel H. (1995): ‘Impact of “God Posters” on Hindus and Their Devotional Traditions.’ In: Babb & Wadley, eds.: Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. Philadelphia: UP Pennsylvania. 24-50.
Image Sources
* Prints and Stickers from Kano (my pics)
* Set of Religious Chromolithographs originally from Egypt, Bonhams (London), Islamic and Indian Art, Wednesday 19 Jan 2011, Lot 58 (previously offered at Dreweatts)
LORRY ART
Vehicle Arts – Nigeria
* Kalla, Bachamahyo Joab (1988): Laranto Lorry Art and Artists. [Unpublished BA Thesis, Department of Creative Arts, University of Maiduguri]
* Osinulu, Damola (2008): ‘Painters, Blacksmiths and Wordsmiths: Building Molues in Lagos.’ In: African Art. Vol. 41. 44-53.
* Pritchett, Jack (1979): ‘Nigerian Truck Art.’ In: African Arts. Vol. 12(2). 27-31.
* Renne, Elisha P. & Dakyes S. Usman (1999): ‘Bicycle Decoration and Everyday Aesthetics in Northern Nigeria.’ In: African Arts. Vol. 32(2). 46-51, 91-92.
Vehicle Arts – Africa (for comparison)
* Beck, K. (2005) ‘Brutstätten der Kreativität. Die Aneignung des LKWs im Sudan.’ [Essay published at the Africars website hosted by the Institut für Ethnologie, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximians-Universität München. http://www.ethnologie.lmu.de/Africars/docs/Beck/fsb.htm, accessed 05/12/2008]
* Beck, Kurt (2009): ‘The Art of Truck Modding on the Nile (Sudan): An Attempt to Trace Creativity.’ In: Gewald, Jan-Bart, Sabine Luning & Klass van Walraven, eds.: The Speed of Change: Motor Vehicles and People in Africa, 1890-2000. [Afrika Centrum Series, Vol. 13] Leiden: Brill. 151-74.
* Date Bah, Eugenia (1980): ‘Inscriptions on the Vehicles of Ghanaian Commercial Drivers: A Sociological Analysis.’ In: The Journal of Modern African Studies. Vol. 18(3). 525-531.
* Geest, Sjaak van der (2009): ‘“Anyway!”: Lorry Inscriptions in Ghana.’ In: Gewald, Jan-Bart, Sabine Luning & Klass van Walraven, eds.: The Speed of Change: Motor Vehicles and People in Africa, 1890-2000. [Afrika Centrum Series, Vol. 13] Leiden: Brill. 253-93.
* Verrips, Jojada (2002): ‘Ghanaian Canoe Decorations.’ In: MAST: Maritime Studies. Vol. 1(1). 43-66.
Vehicle Arts in Asia (for comparison)
* Covington, Richard (2005): ‘Masterpieces to Go: The Trucks of Pakistan.’ In: Saudi Aramco World. Vol. 65(2). 8-17.
* Elias, Jamal J. (2005): ‘Truck Decoration and Religious Identity: Material Culture and Social Function in Pakistan.’ In: Material Religion. Vol. 1(1). 48-71.
* Elias, Jamal J. (2003): ‘On Wings of Diesel: Spiritual Space and Religious Imagination in Pakistani Truck Decoration.’ In: RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. Vol. 43.
* Grothues, Juergen (1995): Automobile Kunst in Pakistan (Automobile Arts in Pakistan). Stuttgart: Motorbuchverlag. (German)
* Rich, George W & Shahid Khan (1980): ‘Bedford Painting in Pakistan: The Aesthetics and Organization of an Artisan Trade.’ In: Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 93 (no. 369). 257-275.
* Scarff, Liz (2007): ‘Keeping up with the Khans On the road with Pakistan's Truck Drivers.’ In: Geographical Magazine. Vol. 79(2). 66-71.
* Schmid, Anna (2005): Pakistan Express: Die Fliegenden Pferde vom Indus. [Exhibition Catalogue] Hamburg: Dolling & Galitz.
Images
* Ostfaficzuk, Stanislaw (1996): Geoecology of the Nigerian Part of the Lake Chad Basin. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slakiego. 21.
DISCLAIMER
This is a work in progress and makes no claims to be comprehensive. If you know of any works that should be included, I’d be very grateful if you emailed the bibliographical details to bajamushiya[at]gmail.com.
