Author: HOLSBEKE Mireille (Editor) :
Title: Het object als bemiddelaar. Over de transcenderende betekenis van kunst in traditionele culturen. Met bijdragen van. Gerard Rooijakkers. Dirk Smit. Jean Loup Rousselot. Harold Blau. Mireille Holsbeke. Pierre Petit. Elze Bruyninx. Anja Veirman.
Description: .: Antwerpen, Etnografisch Museum Stad Antwerpen, 1996, in-4°, 174 pp, (mostly) coloured ills and plates on almost every page, 126 items, bibliography, (on the occasion of an exhibition in Antwerpen in 1997), fine copy. On the religious and transcendental meaning of art objects mainly in non western culture. The objects illustrated and described include sculpture from the Senufo, masks from the Dan (Côte-D'Ivoire), hunting artefacts of the Luba , false faces and husk-face masks of the Onondaga indians, Yupik eskimo masks...Texts in Dutch.. .

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