Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture - Couverture souple

LaGamma, Alisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300103581 ISBN 13 : 9780300103588

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300103581
• ISBN 13: 9780300103588
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 52
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible