Echoing images couples in African sculpture by Alisa LaGamma

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaGamma, Alisa

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Couples in art--Exhibitions.

Couples in art.

Sculpture, African--Exhibitions.

Sculpture, African.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (52 pages) illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; [2004]

New Haven Yale University Press [2004]

Summary:

Across the vastness and complexity of sub-Saharan Africa, and throughout the centuries, representations of couples have evoked a fundamental desire of the human condition-a yearning of the individual to transcend isolation and connect with an "other." Figurative pairs created by artists from the extreme reaches of the continent, ranging from the Dogon of Mali to the Sakalava of Madagascar, constitute artistic explorations into this realm of duality. This publication examines the representation of couples in African sculpture, and explores the underlying social and philosophical ideas concerning duality that are culture-specific. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Contents:

Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture Alisa LaGamma

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 10-Sept. 5, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-52)

Exhibition title: Echoing images: couples in African sculpture

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version LaGamma, Alisa. Echoing images

OCLC:

861698947