ISBN:
9788874397440
Language:
English
,
French
Pages:
330 Seiten
,
Illustrationen (teilweise farbig)
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28 cm
DDC:
700.89/96073
Keywords:
Caput, Patrick Catalogs Art collections
;
Art, African Catalogs
;
Art Catalogs Private collections
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Photography, Artistic
;
Art and photography
;
Photography of art
Abstract:
This book is one of the finest private collections of African art from West and Central Africa, through South Africa and Madagascar. Conceived around four main themes (Governance and transmission, Protection and caring, Coming together (celebrating, partying, judging and praising), Serving and beautifying) this selection offers a capacious general introduction to the topic of African art and further our understanding of the artworks? source cultures. Patrick Caput is a collector, international consultant and expert of African and Oceanic art. Valentine Plisnier is teacher and researcher in History of Art, and has written major works summarizing the impact of non-European art in the photographic modernity from 1918 until today
Note:
Includes photographs
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Bound
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Text in English and French
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Also avail. with title Arts d'Afrique (EAN 978-88-7439-745-7)
URL:
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio12222758
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