Extreme Canvas Hand Painted Movie Posters From Ghana By Ernie Wolfe

Extreme Canvas Hand Painted Movie Posters From Ghana By Ernie Wolfe African art scholar and west l.a. gallery owner wolfe has performed a singularly stunning achievement by both introducing and cataloging over 350 luridly colorful examples of the unique way of advertising hollywood and hong kong films in ghana. produced on recycled canvas flour sacks that have been stitched together, the posters were created. Extreme canvas 2: the golden age of hand painted movie posters from ghana (2012) (hardcover) (very limited) extreme canvas: hand painted movie posters from ghana (2000) (hardcover) *mostly young, but older as well! alex boateng, leonardo, joe mensah, sammy mensah, charles manu, dan nyenkumah, muslim, d.a. jasper, stoger, heavy j, bright obeng.

Extreme Canvas 2 The Golden Age Of Hand Painted Movie Posters From The first ever publication on the golden age of hand painted movie posters in ghana, with world class descriptions of the tradition, hundreds of images of high quality posters, and the artists who made this tradition possible—field collected and personally photographed by ernie wolfe iii. 305 pages. Some use characters from other movies to make the poster for another movie. nudity is not a problem. decapitation doesn't slow them for an instance. and the posters keep flying at you page after page after page. seriously, these posters painted mostly on the backs of canvas grain or corn sacks that were stitched together are incredible. First edition. 4to. illustrated wrappers. film monograph. fine 305pp, profusely illustrated in color. this is noted african art scholar ernie wolfe's extraordinary compendium of vivid, vulgar and outrageous examples of indigenous ghanaian vernacular movie advertisements. these hand painted, one of a kind canvases typically adorn local video. In the book's four major essays, author ernie wolfe iii recounts the rise and fall of the mobile cinema tradition, while noted african art scholar roy sieber follows two dimensional art in africa from rock paintings in the sahara to contemporary manuals, wall paintings, and barber board paintings as well as the canvas movie posters themselves.