Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda: African Art
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African Arts: Special Issue - the Benin Centenary, Part 2
UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center. 1997. Soft cover. Magazine, English text; Magazine; 21.5 x 28 cm; 0.341 Kg; 96 pages.; Used with signs of wear.; Includes several specialized articles and other news, including: 'Edo Art, Dynastic Myth, and Intellectual Aporia' by John Picton; 'Images of Benin at the Pitt Rivers Museum' by Jeremy Coote and Elizabeth Edwards; 'Remembering R. R. Bradbury. An Interview with Peter Morton-Williams' by Charles Gore; 'The Art of Fasting. Benin's Ague Ceremony' by Kathy Curnow; 'Contemporary Art and Artists in Benin City' by Joseph Nevadomsky, Guest Editor; followed by an exhibition preview 'Baule. African Art/Western Eyes' by Susan Mullin Vogel. Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 533B
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Catalogue: African Art
Keywords: africa,african arts Periodicals and magazines

 
FREYER, BRYNA
Royal Benin Art in the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian Institution, U. S. A. 1997. (ISBN: 0874744458). Soft cover. Book, English text; Paperback; 20.5 x 30.5 cm; 0.372 Kg; 63 pages.; Used, some wear to cover otherwise in good condition; Exhibition catalogue, depicting 21 objects from the permanent collection, ranging in date from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Objects, executed by the lost wax casting technique, include wall plaques, altar pieces, and regalia. The majority of these works were a gift of Joseph Hirshhorn to the Smithsonian. Included are a royal commemorative head and a pendant with a triadic figure group from the 16th to 17th century cast in the court style by the Edo people. Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 536B
€  25.00 [Appr.: US$ 27.58 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 4029]
Catalogue: African Art
Keywords: 0874744458 africa,african art,benin art Collections and exhibitions

 
FALGAYRETTES-LEVEAU, CHRISTIANE; CORNET, JOSEPH AURÉLIEN; NEYT, FRANÇOIS, BASTIN, MARIE-LOUISE; NOTUÉ, JEAN-PAUL ; CISSÉ, YOUSSOUF TATA ; BOULORÉ, VINCENT ; BASSANI, EZIO; GIBSON, MICHAEL ; VASSALLO, FLORENCE
Réceptacles
Éditions Dapper. 1997. (ISBN: 9782906067370). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, French text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 25.1 x 33 cm, 2.433 Kg; 344 pages with colour and black-and-white illustrations; Signs of wear on the dust jacket, namely on the bottom of the spine. The interior is in good condition; Catalogue for the exhibition of African receptacles held at the Dapper Museum in Paris from October 1997 to March 1998.;Emblematic of the richness and profoundness of the cultural and social life in black Africa, receptacles stand as secular evidence of exceptional creations, not only in terms of the creativity of their shapes, but also in terms of their strongly diversified use. Some of these receptacles preserve the nourishment of men, others have substances that conserved and enhanced beauty and health, while others conceal and exalt the power of kings, or gather offerings to the gods. Boxes, cups, vases, jars, spoons, snuff boxes, carved pipes, and statuettes evoke an infinity of daily or ritual actions: annointments of the body, offerings of boiled cereals, millet beer, palm oil or wine, smokey dreams that give access to another time, another place. This book also presents earlier vessels, that are both remarkable and unique, and that testify to Europe's attraction for the productions commissioned in Africa as early as the 16th century: boxes and salts made of ivory or ostrich eggs often engraved with motifs that follow the commissioner's taste. However, it is within the intimacy of the more personal artworks, created to satify the community's needs, with clean designs, materials and scarcely decorated, that the african artists enclose the flavours of the world. Good/Dust Jacket Included.
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Book number: ABE110
€  55.00 [Appr.: US$ 60.67 | £UK 46.25 | JP¥ 8865]
Catalogue: African Art
Keywords: 9782906067370 africa,african art,receptacles

 
MEYER, LAURE
Black Africa: Masks Sculpture Jewelry
Finest SA, Éditions Pierre Terrail, France. 2001. Soft cover. Book, English text; Paperback; 24 x 30 cm; 2.198 Kg; 224 pages.; As new, with signs of shelf wear.; One of the great merits of this book is to address the arts of Black Africa thematically: Importance capital of religion and magic, belief in occult powers granted everywhere, ancestral worship accompanied by sacrifices, funeral rites, initiation ceremonies, masked dances, powerful secret societies, leaders will prestige, desire for adornment or beauty search for the humblest objects, these are the deep sources of traditional African art. In this context, the artist responsible for the creation of works indispensables had only relative freedom, but what a result! A careful aesthetic analysis shows how the problems were solved brilliantly: Insider shapes, bold in the conceptualization, shortcuts evocative and it is no coincidence that African art has influenced so profoundly modern art, Modigliani Matisse, Vlaminck and Derain through cubism of Picasso and Juan Gris. Capital and complete a book which reveals and explains the secrets and roots arts of Black Africa. Laure Meyer, born in Africa, art historian and journalist, well known to all lovers of African art, gives us in this book all the keys to "Understanding African art". Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 535B
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Catalogue: African Art
Keywords: africa,african arts

 
PITT RIVERS, AUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX
Antique Works of Art from Benin, Collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers
Printed Privately. 1900, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, English text.; Hardcover (blue gilt decorated cloth).; 25 x 31.5 cm; 1.5 kg; 100 pages with 389 illustrations, each with captions.; Used book with signs of wear on the exterior, including scratches and scuffs. Wear marks on spine, which is slightly faded on the bottom and as a P written with a black marquer. Interior in good condition apart from minor yellowing throughout. Good readable copy.; The design on the binding of this volume is a fac-simili of that on a tablet of Kimmeridge shale found by Lieut.-General Pitt-Rivers in the Romano-British Village at Rotherley near Rushmore, 1887.; Catalogue with Works of Art from Benin, West Africa, obtained by the punitive expedition in 1987, and now at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom. Fair/No Jacket.
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Book number: 595B
€  360.00 [Appr.: US$ 397.13 | £UK 302.5 | JP¥ 58023]
Catalogue: African Art
Keywords: benin,art,africa,works of art,african art,scarce Collections and exhibitions

 
SIEBER, ROY
Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of African Art: Volume 1
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1999. (ISBN: 0965600122). Soft cover. Book, English text; Paperback; 18 x 25.5 cm; 0.685 Kg; 191 pages.; Used with signs of wear on the interior and exterior. Interior in very good condition. With signs of shelf wear. The National Museum of African Art began as a private educational institution in 1964 and became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1979. This volume includes highlights from the museum's holdings of traditional African art from throughout the continent, although the majority of works originated in sub-Saharan Africa. The 150 objects presented include sculpted masks and figures, regalia, items of personal adornment, textiles, furniture, and household objects. Each entry provides a discussion about the object's meaning and use and includes provenance and publication history. Fully illustrated in color, the handbook also includes maps, an extensive bibliography, and an introduction by Roy Sieber, America's foremost authority on traditional African art. Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 538B
€  25.00 [Appr.: US$ 27.58 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 4029]
Catalogue: African Art
Keywords: 0965600122 africa,african art Collections and exhibitions

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