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The invisible present : African art & literature / Dennis Duerden.
LIBRA - Special NX587 .D83 1975
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duerden, Dennis.
- Series:
- Icon editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, African.
- Art, African.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xiv, 169 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975.
- Contents:
- Time and African Art
- Limiting the King's Power
- Destiny and the Creative Force
- Lineages and Age Groups
- Personality and the Creative Force
- Divination
- Definition and Ambiguity
- Secrecy, Associations and Hunters
- Satire and the Adults' Age Societies
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Gloria Adelson."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Duerden, Dennis. Invisible present.
- ISBN:
- 0064320006
- 9780064320009
- OCLC:
- 1229543
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