Baule

Baule PDF Author: Susan Mullin Vogel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300073171
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Featuring 250 illustrations, a detailed study of the sculpture of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast--long seen by Westerners as one of Africa's most important artistic traditions--explores the Baules' ways of expression and aesthetic understanding. UP.

Baule

Baule PDF Author: Susan Mullin Vogel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300073171
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
Featuring 250 illustrations, a detailed study of the sculpture of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast--long seen by Westerners as one of Africa's most important artistic traditions--explores the Baules' ways of expression and aesthetic understanding. UP.

Echoing Images

Echoing Images PDF Author: Alisa LaGamma
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391086
Category : Couples in art
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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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.

Art and Oracle

Art and Oracle PDF Author: Alisa LaGamma
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999338
Category : Art, Black
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Twenty-eight African cultures are represented here by artifacts created to communicate with ancestors, spirits, and gods, about such issues as health, conception, and determination of guilt or innocence. Issued in conjunction with an April-July 2000 exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, this catalog contains extensive ethnographic, descriptive, and interpretive text in connection with each of 50 pictured pieces, as well as a 13-page essay about divination in Sub-Saharan Africa (by John Pemberton III) and an introductory essay by LaGamma. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Baule Monkeys

Baule Monkeys PDF Author: Bruno Claessens
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ISBN: 9780300222449
Category : Apes in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Straying from the traditional art canon of the delicate Baule masks and figures, Baule monkeys explores the darker side of this art form, in all its aspects. This makes it the first book to deal exclusively with the eponymous sculptures. These awe-inspiring bowl-bearing figures were physical manifestations of invisible powers, both malign and benign, and served their communities through the mediation of diviners. Using a group of remarkable figures from the Africarium collection as illustration, the book focuses on the creation, usage and form of these bowl bearers and sheds light on the cultural and ritual context in which they operated. Through extensive research, the book combines new and fascinating discoveries with all previous relations on the subject. This research is accompanied by many splendid images. Not only does the book include an original map and never before published field photos, it also contains 15 objects from the Africarium collection and 40 monkey figures from other public and private collections represented in full-page illustrations, and in smaller formats. This gives the reader a chance to see the works in great detail and from different angles.

Royal Art of Benin

Royal Art of Benin PDF Author: Kate Ezra
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996339
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Tantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?"

Ancestors of Congo Square

Ancestors of Congo Square PDF Author: William A. Fagaly
Publisher: Scala Books
ISBN: 9781857596984
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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First comprehensive book on the extraordinary collection of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, considered one of the best in the United States.

Closeup

Closeup PDF Author: Jerry L. Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780945802075
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Perfect Documents

Perfect Documents PDF Author: Virginia-Lee Webb
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999397
Category : Photography of sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Humanities

Humanities PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Humanistic
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Primitive Negro Sculpture

Primitive Negro Sculpture PDF Author: Paul Guillaume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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