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Visions from the forests : the art of Liberia and Sierra Leone / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot, general editors ; essays by Mariane C. Ferme and Paul Richards, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Nanina Guyer, Barbara C. Johnson, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Frederick John Lamp, Daniel B. Reed ; catalogue by Alexander Bortolot, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Natasha Thoreson.
Penn Museum Library N7399.L4 V57 2014
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959- author.
- Richards, Paul, 1945 May 14- author.
- Guyer, Nanina, author.
- Johnson, Barbara C., author.
- Kreamer, Christine Mullen, author.
- Lamp, Frederick, author.
- Reed, Daniel B. (Daniel Boyce), 1963- author.
- Thoreson, Natasha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Liberian--Exhibitions.
- Art, Liberian.
- Art, Sierra Leonean--Exhibitions.
- Art, Sierra Leonean.
- Art objects--Liberia--Exhibitions.
- Art objects.
- Art objects--Sierra Leone--Exhibitions.
- Siegmann, William--Art collections--Exhibitions.
- Siegmann, William.
- Siegmann, William--Ethnological collections--Exhibitions.
- Forest people--Liberia--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.
- Forest people.
- Forest people--Sierra Leone--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.
- Forest people--Liberia--Social life and customs--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Forest people--Sierra Leone--Social life and customs--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Photography in ethnology--Liberia--Exhibitions.
- Photography in ethnology.
- Photography in ethnology--Sierra Leone--Exhibitions.
- Manners and customs.
- Liberia--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.
- Liberia.
- Sierra Leone--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.
- Sierra Leone.
- Liberia--Social life and customs--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Sierra Leone--Social life and customs--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Minneapolis Institute of Arts ; Seattle : Distributed by the University of Washington Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Remembering Bill Siegmann / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers
- Forests in the imagination of the Upper Guinea coast / Mariane C. Ferme and Paul Richards
- Extending the stage : photography and Sande intitiates in the early twentieth century / Nanina Guyer
- "By their fruits you will know them" : Sande mask carvers identified / Frederick John Lamp
- Spirits from the forest : Dan masks in performance and everyday life / Daniel B. Reed
- Brass casting in Liberia / Barbara C. Johnson
- Ritual recycling : modern uses of ancient stone sculptures in the Upper Guinea forest region / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers
- William Siegmann, advocate for connoisseurship / Christine Mullen Kreamer
- Catalogue of objects / Alexander Bortolot, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, and Natasha Thoreson
- Appendix : A historiography of the term nòwo / Frederick John Lamp.
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of the same name organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. (Colophon)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0989371816
- 9780989371810
- OCLC:
- 862347679
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