Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) - Softcover

LaGamma, Alisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300103581 ISBN 13: 9780300103588

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Alisa LaGamma is Associate Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is the author of Genesis: Ideas of Origins in African Sculpture, also available from Yale University Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300103581
• ISBN 13: 9780300103588
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 52
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