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Fantasy coffin

Index Fantasy coffin

The fantasy or figurative coffins from Ghana, in Europe also called custom, fantastic, or proverbial coffins (abebuu adekai), are functional coffins made by specialized carpenters in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana. [1]

21 relations: Accra Academy, African art, Ataa Oko, Bern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Collection de l'art brut, Daniel Mensah, Eric Adjetey Anang, Figurative palanquin, Ga-Adangbe people, Ghana, Greater Accra Region, Jack Bell, Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop, Kudjoe Affutu, Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal District, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Paa Joe, Regula Tschumi, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Thomas Demand.

Accra Academy

The Accra Academy was the first private academy to be established in the Gold Coast, present-day Ghana.

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African art

African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent.

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Ataa Oko

Ataa Oko and his third wife, with a coffin in the form of a battleship, about 1960 Ataa Oko (c. 1919 - 9 December 2012) was a Ghanaian builder of figurative palanquins and fantasy coffin and at over 80 years of age he became a painter of Art Brut.

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Bern

Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".

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Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou, commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou and also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.

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Collection de l'art brut

The Collection de l'art brut (literally "Collection of Outsider Art"; sometimes referred to as "Musée de l'art brut") is a museum dedicated to outsider art located in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Daniel Mensah

Daniel Mensah, also known as Hello, is a Ga carpenter and fantasy coffin artist.

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Eric Adjetey Anang

Eric Adjetey Anang (born 1985) is a Ghanaian sculptor and fantasy coffin carpenter.

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Figurative palanquin

A figurative palanquin connected with the totem of its owner is a special kind of litter used in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana.

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Ga-Adangbe people

The Ga-Adangme, Gã-Adaŋbɛ, Ga-Dangme, or GaDangme are an ethnic group in Ghana and Togo.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Greater Accra Region

The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 10 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres or 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana.

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Jack Bell

John "Jack" Bell (born 6 October 1869 in Dumbarton) was an early Scottish football player and manager.

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Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop

The Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop is a studio established in Teshie, Ghana, since the 1950s.

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Kudjoe Affutu

Kudjoe Affutu (born 1985) is a Ghanaian artist and figurative coffin and palanquin builder.

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Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal District

The Ledzekuku-Krowor Municipal District district, with its administrative capital at Nungua is one of the sixteen (16) districts in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana with a population in 2010 of 227,932.

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Museum of Fine Arts Bern

The Museum of Fine Arts Bern (German: Kunstmuseum Bern), established in 1879 in Bern, the capital of Switzerland, is the oldest art museum in Switzerland with a permanent collection.

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Paa Joe

Paa Joe (with family name Joseph Ashong) is a Ghanaian figurative palanquin and fantasy coffin artist born 1947 in the region Akwapim belonging to the Ga-Adangbe people, Greater Accra Region in Ghana.

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Regula Tschumi

Regula Tschumi is a Swiss social anthropologist and art historian.

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Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is an art gallery and museum located on the campus of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

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Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand, in full Thomas Cyrill Demand, (born 1964) is a German sculptor and photographer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_coffin

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