ISBN:
9781588394323
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9780300175844
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 298 S.
,
zahlr. Ill., Kt.
DDC:
709.6074/7471
Keywords:
Figure sculpture, African Exhibitions
;
Portrait sculpture, African Exhibitions
;
Sculpture Exhibitions
;
Art and society Exhibitions
;
Ausstellungskatalog
;
Ausstellungskatalog
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Kunst
;
Plastik
;
Bildnis
Description / Table of Contents:
Visual poems in praise of an ever-present past: Ife terracottas -- Pageantry and ritual: the Akan -- Dancing figures and effigy thrones: Grassfield chiefdoms -- The golden age of Shyáám and beyond: the Kuba -- Of hunter princes and cherished maidens: the Chokwe and Luluwa -- Sublime chiefs and the persistence of memory: the Hemba.
Note:
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zürich, February 26-June 3, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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