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Author : Marc Leo Felix
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book 100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture written by Marc Leo Felix and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Leo Felix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book 100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture written by Marc Leo Felix and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191663107
Total Pages : 1123 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines written by Timothy Insoll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 1123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field. The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies; wherever prehistoric figurines are found they have been expertly described and examined in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation. Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines 'prehistoric' even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a synthesis of invaluable insights into past thinking on the human body, gender, identity, and how the figurines might have been used, either practically, ritually, or even playfully.
Author : Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870995901
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Art of Central Africa written by Hans-Joachim Koloss and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781599671529
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Important African & Oceanic Art Auction written by Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.) and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Stepan
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Picasso's Collection of African & Oceanic Art written by Peter Stepan and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he never set foot in Africa, Picasso had a passion for African art. Throughout the course of his life, he assembled a unique collection of statues and masks. Comprising more than 120 objects, Picasso's private collection can now be found in museums in Paris such as the Louvre, Musee Quai Branly and the Musee Picasso, as well as in the private collections of members of Picasso's family. This beautiful book documents the entire collection and examines it as a whole. It features documentary photographs, a section of stunning colour plates, and detailed ethnographic descriptions of each piece, providing a full account of Picasso's relationship with African and Oceanic art. This important publication sheds new light on the fascination non-Western art held for one of twentieth century's most important artists. Review: '...an illuminating and handsome book, copiously illustrated with fascinating original documents and excellent colour reproductions...''... a convenient and also essential reference tool for anyone interested in this important subject.''... an invaluable and also entertaining guide.''... this book not only investigates Picasso's response to tribal art with unusual thoroughness, but also reopens the larger question of the artist's 'primitivism'.'The Burlington Magazine, June 2007
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391086
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Echoing Images written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idealized pairings have been an enduring concern of sculptors across the African continent. This universal theme of duality is now examined in a handsome book that presents African sculptural masterpieces created in wood, bronze, terracotta, and beadwork from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Drawn from thirty sub-Saharan African cultures, including those of the Dogon, Lobi, Baule, Senufo, Yoruba, Chamba, Jukun, Songye, and Sakalava, the sculptures tell much about each culture's beliefs and social ideals. These artistic creations are astonishingly rich and diverse forms of expression. An essay written by Alisa LaGamma discusses thirty works, all of which are illustrated in color.
Author : Enid Schildkrout
Publisher : Amer Museum of Natural History
ISBN 13 : 9780295969619
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (696 download)
Download or read book African Reflections written by Enid Schildkrout and published by Amer Museum of Natural History. This book was released on 1990 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises studies on the bibliographic control of various collections (e.g., films, museum materials, publications in African languages), background information on interlibrary cooperation, and an essay on improved online access to Africa-related materials in undergraduate collection. A companion to an exhibition developed by the American Museum of Natural History, the sophisticated text and stunning illustrations (249 in all, 128 in glorious color) trace the art history of northeastern Zaire from before the first encounters with Europeans in the 1870s to the present. The authors contrast the traditional design aesthetic with the naturalistic and representational style of art that flourished after 1900. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jacques Kerchache
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Art of Africa written by Jacques Kerchache and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1993 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 332 pages
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Author : Dawn Elaine Bastian
Publisher : Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Zaire written by Dawn Elaine Bastian and published by Oxford, England : Clio Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zaire remains a relatively unknown country, despite the fact that it is one of the largest and most geopolitically strategic nations in Africa and has played a significant role in recent African and international affairs. Europeans first arrived in the area when the Portuguese explored the Congo River Basin in 1483. Isolated from developments in other parts of Africa until the mid-1950s, Zairians subsequently became conscious of the liberation struggles taking place in neighbouring countries and finally gained full independence themselves in 1960.
Author : Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Publisher : Menil Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book African Art from the Menil Collection written by Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) and published by Menil Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bamana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculpture, and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African artifacts found in the renowned Menil Collection. This stunning book--the first comprehensive catalogue on the de Menils' collection of African art--features 115 of the museum's finest pieces. Dating primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, these works come from North Africa and the Sahel, Coastal West Africa, and Central and East Africa. An essay by scholar Kristina Van Dyke discusses the formation of the collection, which was inspired in part by its relationship to modernist works and by the couple's interest in human rights. This insightful text also explains how the de Menils' visionary spirit was influenced by African art and places those objects within the context of the whole of the de Menils' collection, in which works from ancient, Byzantine, medieval, modern, Oceanic, and Native American cultures speak to the universal struggle for human understanding. Entries for the selected works were written by leading scholars in the field and are grouped into sections based on regions. Distributed for The Menil Collection
Author : Herbert M. Cole
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book ICONS PB written by Herbert M. Cole and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The couple. The woman and child. The armed male. The rider. The stranger. For more than six thousand years, these five themes have appeared in countless works of art across the vast continent of Africa. The cultural ideals and values they embody are central to the lives of African peoples. Herbert M. Cole calls these timeless fundamental images icons. In this fascinating book, Cole explores the many different ways the icons have been depicted, used, and interpreted. "Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa" is lavishly illustrated iwth more than two hundred photographs. Cole discusses such diverse works as ancient rock paintings and engravings, archaeological bronzes and terra-cottas, wooden shrine sculptors, miniature metal castings, public monuments in clay or cement, shop signs, gold and ivory political emblems, and modern glass paintings. "Icons" is both a noteworthy contribution to scholarship and a compelling introduction to the vitality, richness, and history of African art. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Eugene C. Burt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Art written by Eugene C. Burt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Siebe Rossel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Tribal Treasures in Dutch Private Collections written by Siebe Rossel and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Pelrine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book African Art from the Rita and John Grunwald Collection written by Diane Pelrine and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalog of some 70 objects with descriptive text. No color except on the cover. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : John Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo, 1900-1909 written by John Mack and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The collection of art from the Congo State made for the British Museum during the opening decade of the twentieth century by the Hungarian adventurer-turned-anthropologist Emil Torday (1875-1931) is unparalleled amongst those from Central Africa. Comprising over 3000 objects, covering the whole region lying along the southern regions of the Equatorial Forest (now southern Zaire), the collection includes some of the most important and best-preserved wood sculpture from Africa and a comprehensive range of richly ornamented objects in wood, metal and textiles. John Mack describes Torday's travels and his relationship with the various Congolese peoples - notably Kwete, the King of the Kuba, whom Torday befriended and greatly admired. He also examines the emergence of a more documentary kind of anthropology than was encouraged by Victorian social theorists, and explores the role the British Museum was to play in this development." - Back cover.
