| Search Antiqbook |
Ask a question or
Order this book
Browse our books
Search our books
Book dealer info
Rostros, Diablos y Animales: Máscaras en las Fiestas Centroamericanas = Faces, Devils and Animals: Masks in the Central America Festivities. Vania Solano et al
San José, Costa Rica, Fundación Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica, 2005, 208p color plates, map, cat., bibl., illus. endpapers, color pict. d.j 28cm ISBN: 9968-9476-9-5. The result of over 15 years of investigation on the subject with over 250 masks, and related costumes from Central America. The exhibition places the masks, in historical, geographic, environmental and social context. The book is outcome of an exhaustive research by anthropologists Vania Solano Laclé, Johnny Cartín Quesada and Alejandro Tosatti who compiled a large amount of publications, photographic material, oral testimonies . They studied the collection of more than 200 masks and complementary objects from multiple regions of Central America. The publication is a parallel project of the exhibition by the same name held from September of the 2005 to January, 2006 in Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT
Offered for US$ 90.00 by: Howard Karno Books, Inc - Book number: 81281
See more books from our catalog: FOLKART