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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
- 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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