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	African Art from The Menil Collection Bamana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculpture, and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African artifacts found in the renowned Menil Collection. This stunning book—the first comprehensive catalogue on the de Menils' collection of African art—features 115 of the museum’s finest pieces. Dating primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, these works come from North Africa and the Sahel, Coastal West Africa, and Central and East Africa. An essay by scholar Kristina Van Dy...
	African Art in American Collections African art -- with its powerful forms, complex symbolism, and formal inventiveness -- has only recently come to be recognized as one of the great artistic traditions of mankind. This rich tradition is showcased here in a remarkable selection of outstanding works. Nearly 1,600 objects are illustrated, each accompanied by scholarly information on style, usage, meaning, and cultural origin. Featured individually by section are the styles of Western Sudan, the West African Coastal Region, West Cent...
	African Art: A Century at Th Brooklyn Museum This magnificent volume showcases thehighlights from a world-renowned collection of African textiles, ceramics, jewelry, masks, and figures from more than fifty different cultures.The Brooklyn Museum was one of the first North American institutions to collect and exhibit African material culture as art rather than artifact. Today the museum's collection numbers more than six thousand pieces and is noted for its artistic quality and educational value, as well as a breadth and depth that would be ...
	African Art: The World Bank Collections ...
	African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection ...
	African Form and Imagery: Detroit Collects This work presents 75 pieces of sculptural art in various mediums from across sub-Saharan Africa, including masks, carved figures, furniture, ceramics and jewellery. Brief entries accompany each object, none of which predates the 19th century, placing the art in context....
	African Forms: Art and Rituals African Forms: Art And Rituals illuminates an aspect of African art that has largely been neglected by other books. African sculptures and art are difficult to decipher because they are more than tokens of "art for art's sake." African art is based on religious and philosophical values. It is created not just for the patron but for the entire community, using a language of form for the society to understand what can't otherwise be put into words. Through an enlightening analysis of some of ...
	African Furniture and Household Objects ...
	African Gold This volume catalogs the impressive gold collection held bythe Gold Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. It illustrates andsurveys an enormous range of ornamental objects from theSahel and the central West African forest regions. The piecesdate from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and includeheaddresses, rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and items ofroyal regalia. Many are decorated with figurative motifs suchas birds, fish, and fruit, symbols which refer to local proverbs.Magnificent ...