Africa: The Art of a Continent - Gates Henry Louis
100 Works of Power and Beauty
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Inspired by a landmark exhibition of art on view at the Guggenheim Museum, this book provides an accessible overview to one of the world's great art traditions. Africa is the birthplace of human civilization, and produced some of humankind's earliest art objects. This book presents masterworks organized into seven geographical areas - Ancient Egypt and Nubia, eastern Africa, southern Africa, central Africa, western Africa and the Guinea Coast, Sahel and Savanna, and Northern Africa. Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze, and stone provide stunning proof of the aesthetic strength of African traditions, even in the case of utilitarian works that were not made to be "art". In some cases, the very concept of art was foreign to their makers, as Kwame Anthony Appiah explains in his essay. In an epic overview of Africa's earliest history, Ekpo Eyo makes a strong case for dispensing with the popular misconception that northern Africa, Northwestern Africa and Egypt - is somehow not an integral part of the Afr...
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Original blind stamped navy cloth, dust jacket, a lot of illustrations in colour, large 4to.; Two small yelow stains front cover. [Auteur: Phillips, Tom] [Pagina's: 191] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Guggenheim Museum] [Jaar: 1996] [Titel: Africa: The Art Of A Continent]
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Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, blindstamped tile on spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: Frontispiece map Africa, viij, 192pp., several bl.& wh. text-photographs, 100 coloured page-large photographs with descriptions, 6 essays [Kwame Anthony Appiah - Suzanne Preston Blier - Ekpo Eyo - Henry Louis Gates jr. - Peter Mark], bibliography, photo credits. Very fine copy. " Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze and stone provide stunning proof of the aesthetic strength of African trad...
