Área de título y declaración de responsabilidad
Título apropiado
Zdenka Volavka fonds
Tipo general de material
- Documento textual
- Material gráfico
Título paralelo
Otra información de título
Título declaración de responsabilidad
Título notas
Nivel de descripción
Fondo
Institución archivística
Código de referencia
Declaración de edición
Declaración de responsabilidad de edición
Mención de la escala (cartográfica)
Mención de proyección (cartográfica)
Mención de coordenadas (cartográfica)
Mención de la escala (arquitectónica)
Jurisdicción de emisión y denominación (filatélico)
Área de fechas de creación
Fecha(s)
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1471-1991, predominant 1900-1999 (Publicación)
Área de descripción física
Descripción física
25.5 m of textual records
ca. 660 photographs
Título apropiado de las series del editor
Títulos paralelos de serie editorial
Otra información de título de las series editoriales
Declaración de responsabilidad relativa a las series editoriales
Numeración dentro de la serie editorial
Nota en las series editoriales
Área de descripción del archivo
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Zdenka Volavka, art professor and research associate at the Royal Ontario Museum, was born in Czechoslovakia and received her PhD from Charles University, Prague. She immigrated to Canada in 1968, and was Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, York University. Her research focused on analyzing the social context of visual art, material culture, history, and ethnography of west-central Africa. Her approach to studying African art combined extensive fieldwork with ethnographic, historical, scientific and linguistic analysis. Zdenka also studied the role of copper in the lives of the peoples of the lower Zaïre basin.
Her life's work was inspired by a trip in 1976 to the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, where she recognized the regalia of Ngoyo kinship labelled (for more than forty years) as a fishing basket. This was particularly important as no permanent regalia from any kingdoms in the whole of Central African have been recovered and only one set had ever even been seen by a foreign researcher. This research was published posthumously in "The Crown and the Ritual: The Royal Insignia of Ngoyo".
At York University, a research fellowship is honoured in her name to assist students engaged in field-based art historical research, which may include comparative study through collections as well as field activities, focusing on the art of the indigenous peoples of Africa and/or North America.
She is survived by her husband, Larry Landa, and son, Robert Landa.
Historial de custodia
The 1996-025 accession was transferred from the Fine Arts Department, York University in 1996. The 2000-018 material was transferred from the home of Larry Landa.
Alcance y contenido
Fonds consists of Zdenka Volavka records accumulated and created over the course of her professorial career. The majority of files consist of annotated photocopied material obtained through interlibrary loans (the card catalogue indexing this material was prepared by Zdenka's long-time assistant, the late Charlotte Carrol). Files also contain material related to her involvement at York University and her research on the kingship and royal ritual in Ngoyo, Africa.
Área de notas
Condiciones físicas
Origen del ingreso
Arreglo
The fonds is arranged in the original order in which it was received. There appears to be no discernible order.
Idioma del material
- inglés
- francés
- alemán
- español
Escritura del material
Nota sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Language of material notes primary languages found in the fond. Additional languages of African and Western European origin are present.
Ubicación de los originales
Disponibilidad de otros formatos
Restricciones de acceso
Access to be determined.
Condiciones de uso, reproducción, y publicación
Instrumentos de descripción
Materiales asociados
An inventory of books donated by Volavka are available through the York University Library catalogue (search term "From the Zdenka Volavka fonds").
See University of Toronto Archives and Records Management services for records on her collaboration and research with Ursula Martius Franklin (UTA 1287).
Acumulaciones
The fonds comprises the following accessions: 1996-025, 2000-018. Further accruals are expected.
Nota general
Finding aid may contain language from the era in which it was written including historical, unclear, or biased terminology.
Identificador/es alternativo(os)
Área de número estándar
Número estándar
Puntos de acceso
Puntos de acceso por materia
Puntos de acceso por lugar
Puntos de acceso por autoridad
Tipo de puntos de acceso
Área de control
Estado de elaboración
Final
Nivel de detalle
Completo
Fechas de creación, revisión o eliminación
2002/04/12 Marie-Josee Levesque:. WordPerfect (Creation)
2002/04/12 Awaiting review by the Data Collection Archivist
2002/10/10 Shannon MacDonald. Update wording on Scope and content, custodial history and Finding aid.
2003/04/02 Shannon MacDonald. Add URL for online finding aid.
2014/07/22 Migrated to AtoM.
2017/10/04 KCP. Metadata clean up. Imported file level inventories from legacy word perfect document.
2018/04/04 KCP. Added graphic material (ca. 660 photographs) to extent, arrangement note, languages (Spanish, French, German, and note of African languages) and associated material (Franklin and books); updated date to reflect information in finding aid; cleaned up metadata, and imported file lists from word processing finding aid.
2020/10/26 KCP. Added historical language note.
Idioma de descripción
- inglés