Author: George Nelson Preston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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A selection of 48 images from African art. Includes commentaries and an introduction.

Author: Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : it
Pages : 414

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"This beautifully illustrated volume highlights all the rich diversity of African cultures through a meaningful selection of masterpieces of traditional African art."--Global Books in Print.

Author: Christine Mullen Kreamer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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"Asked why he decided to collect African art, Paul Tishman replied, "How does one fall in love?" Such was the passion Paul and Ruth Tishman brought to collecting. The Tishmans acquired their first works of African art - an ivory figure and a bronze mask from the Benin kingdom - in the late 1950s. Over the next 20 plus years, the Tishmans built one of the great private collections of African art that included the major art traditions found throughout the continent. The Tishmans' desire to share the art with as many people as possible led to the 1984 sale of the collection to the Walt Disney Company, who proved to be generous stewards, making the collection available for exhibition and publication. In the autumn of 2005, the Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, donated the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection to the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, continuing the tradition of sharing the rich history of African art and culture with current and future generations." --

Author: Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995901
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Author: Susan Mullin Vogel
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Gerald Berjonneau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Christraud M. Geary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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How the "unique" look of African art captured the imagination of artists such as Picasso and Stieglitz is well known. But how do art aficionados today see African objects? And how does our view compare to the way in which these objects were seen in Africa? Presenting the William and Bertha Teel Collection for the first time, this book provides a chance to think about how our vision of such objects is shaped by the "ethnographic," "primitive," or "modern" labels that have been applied in the West, and to compare it to how those same works were viewed in their birthplace. Lavish, full-color illustrations of over 100 choice objects combine forces with essays by leading African art specialists Suzanne Preston Blier, Michael Kan, and Edmund B. Gaither, and object descriptions by the collector himself, to provide a thoughtful and visually stimulating examination of these important African forms--as well as of the dynamic relationship among their creators, their original cultural contexts, and the Western viewing public.

Author: Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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One of the leading collections of African art in the world, the African collection at Berlin's Ethnological Museum contains important masterpieces from many different regions of the continent. This stunning book includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white reproductions of masks, ceremonial figures, musical instruments, and objects of everyday life from throughout Africa. Among the jewels in the museum are the Ife Collection from Nigeria; rare Benin bronzes; Afro-Portuguese ivories; magical figures from the Lower Congo and a host of East African sculpture and masks that have gained increasing attention in recent years. Essays by leading ethnologists supply important cultural and historical information on each region, as well as fascinating insights into the ways European and African art have traded influences over the centuries.

Author: Peter Stepan
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : no
Pages : 136

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50 mesterværker - fra arkæologiske fund over middelalderen til det 20. århundredes kunst

Author: André Magnin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 29 January - 8 May 2005.