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Material differences : art and identity in Africa / edited by Frank Herreman ; with contributions by Herman Burssens ... [and others].

Fine Arts Library N7391.65 .M38 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Herreman, Frank.
Burssens, Herman
Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Art, African--Exhibitions.
Art, African.
Symbolism in art--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Exhibitions.
Symbolism in art.
Identity (Psychology) in art--Exhibitions.
Identity (Psychology) in art.
Artists' materials--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Exhibitions.
Artists' materials.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Museum for African Art ; Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, [2003]
Contents:
Revealing forms through subtraction
Sculpting in wood, ivory, and stone / Herman Burssens
Transforming through fire
Iron sculpture in Africa / William J. Dewey
African ceramics / Jerome Vogel
Sculpting in copper alloys / Frank Herreman
"Brass never rusts, lead never rots": brass and brasscasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick
Gold / Frank Herreman
The ephemeral and 'un-transportable'
The ephemeral and 'un-transportable' / Frank Herreman
Leaf masks among the Bobo and the Bwa / Christopher D. Roy
Earth revews earth: Igbo Mbari houses / Herbert M. Cole
Eravwe: an ephemeral Urhobo water spirit masquerade / Perkins Foss
Kalengula: ephemeral masks among the Luntu and neighboring peoples of the Democratic republic of the Congo and Angola / Constantine Petridis
Accumulating power
Enhancing spiritual and secular power through accumulating materials / Frank Herreman
Tupele divination materials and their relative symbolic attributes / Manuel A. Jordan
A French perspective on African 'power objects': travel, philosophical and anthropological accounts / Michele Chadeisson.
Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum for African Art, New York.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-176).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
ISBN:
9053494588
9789053494585
094580234X
9780945802341
OCLC:
52689867

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