African Arts is celebrating its half-century milestone! Its first issue was published in autumn of 1967, the brainchild of UCLA faculty Paul O. Proehl and John Povey, who became its first editor-in-chief and managing editor, respectively. We celebrated the 100th issue in October 1992 (vol. 25, no. 4), and did so under the leadership of Doran H. Ross and Donald J. Cosentino, who joined the editorial board in 1988 (Cosentino retired in 2004 and Ross in 2015). Their decision was to look back at the history of African Arts and the field of African art studies through the “personal perspectives of two of the discipline's most celebrated practitioners”: Roy Sieber and Robert Farris Thompson. Ross's comprehensive interview with Sieber and Cosentino's with Thompson provided fascinating recollections by these two pioneering scholars, who ruminated about their lives, their research, and the emergence of the field. Twenty-five years later their words still...
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Spring 2017
March 01 2017
Celebrating Fifty Years
Marla C. Berns
Marla C. Berns
Marla C. Berns is the Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Her connection with African Arts dates to her time as a graduate student at UCLA and, after participating in the journal in a number of different roles, she has served as a member of its editorial board since 2001. [email protected]
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Marla C. Berns
Marla C. Berns is the Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Her connection with African Arts dates to her time as a graduate student at UCLA and, after participating in the journal in a number of different roles, she has served as a member of its editorial board since 2001. [email protected]
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2017 by the Regents of the University of California.
2017
African Arts (2017) 50 (1): 6–9.
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Marla C. Berns; Celebrating Fifty Years. African Arts 2017; 50 (1): 6–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_a_00326
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