Download or read book Heroic Africans written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zeurich, at later dates.

Download or read book African Mid Sculpture written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Sculpture Speaks written by Ladislas Segy and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1975 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full appraisal of African art published in the United States, African Sculpture Speaks describes and illustrates the sculpted works of more than 150 West African tribes.

Download or read book African Sculpture written by Ladislas Segy and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1958-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a brief analysis and history of African sculpture followed by a pictorial survey of this art grouped according to region

Download or read book Genesis written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventy-five masterpieces presented here, drawn from public and private American collections, are among the most celebrated icons of African art, works that are superb artistic creations as well as expressions of a society's most profound conceptions about its beginnings. All are reproduced in color and are accompanied by entries that illuminate the distinctive cultural contexts that inspired their creation and informed their appreciation."--BOOK JACKET.

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:

Download or read book African Art written by Pierre Meauzé and published by Gramercy Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Sculpture written by William Fagg and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Eternal Ancestors written by Barbara Drake Boehm and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many masterpieces of central African sculpture were created to amplify the power of sacred relics that affirm a family's vital connection to its ancestral heritage. This important volume, focusing on some 130 works representing a diverse variety of regional genres, illuminates the purpose and significance of these icons of African art, which first came to prominence because of their appeal to the Western avant-garde. While providing an overview of sources ranging from colonial explorers, missionaries, critics, artists, and art historians, the book breaks new ground in its examination of the complex aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of the reliquaries. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together the perspectives of scholars in African and medieval art history along with those in African history, religion, and ethnography." -- Publisher.

Download or read book Surfaces written by Leonard Kahan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the power and potency of surfaces in African sculpture

Download or read book African art written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Sculpture written by Denise Paulme and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1962 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Art in the Cycle of Life written by Roy Sieber and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows examples of tomb figures, posts, ancestor figures, masks, chairs, stools, cups, boxes, and doors and describes the background of each work.

Download or read book Art and Oracle written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Sculptures et formes d Afrique African sculptures and forms Ediz illustrata written by François Neyt and published by 5 Continents. This book was released on 2018 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les objets soigneusement sélectionnés dans cette publication et provenant de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, de l'Afrique centrale et orientale, à travers les formes qui leur sont propres, nous invitent à renouveler notre perception et notre compréhension des messages qu'ils contiennent. L'humble acceptation de notre connaissance parcellaire peut se transformer en énigme. Cette approche de l'objet, considéré comme un secret, éveille l'esprit et le coeur à des réalités que nous ne soupçonnions guère. Accepter l'énigme, c'est reconnaître qu'une part du mystère de l'objet nous échappe et que l'autre part, invisible, peut nous apparaître. Tel est le chemin proposé dans ce livre : repérer des clés de connaissance et d'approfondissement sur les plans stylistique et esthétique.

Download or read book Black Africa written by Laure Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificently illustrated book covers each medium or craft in turn and examines in a clear and accessible manner the entire range of Black African art from aesthetic and ethnological points of view.