Author : Janet Rupert
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 0595351611
Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.
Author : Christine Stelzig
Publisher : Prestel Junior
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9783791318745
Describes different types of ceremonial African masks, how and why they are made, and how they reflect the culture of their ethnic groups.
Author : Iris Hahner-Herzog
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art, African
ISBN : 9783791338071
African Masks surveys 248 of the finest examples of masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection, of which 100 are reproduced in stunning color illustrations. Leading scholars on African art describe the masks' historical and religious functions, and their symbolic significance.
Author : Carol Finley
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822520788
Describes how different types of masks are made and used in Africa and how they reflect the culture of their ethnic groups.
Author : Laure Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
This magnificently illustrated book covers each medium or craft in turn and examines in a clear and accessible manner the entire range of Black African art from aesthetic and ethnological points of view.
Author : Ladislas Segy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486231815
Pictures grotesques, masks, and headdresses of various African tribes as well as exploring the psychological and ideological meaning, and ritual function of masks
Author : Peter Stepan
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :
"Spirits Speak presents a selection of the most important African masks found in major museums and renowned private collections around the globe: an overview such as has never been compiled in this way before. Artistic mastery, charisma, age and authenticity were paramount selection criteria with only the very best examples representing each well-known mask type. An introductory essay elucidates the conceptual intricacies and varying functions of the masks and sweeps away deep-rooted misunderstandings. Enlightening commentaries offer background information about the function and origins of each mask's use within the ethnic groups from which they originate, and a foldout map places them in their original geographical context."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : William Fagg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Masks
ISBN :
Author : Iris Hahner-Herzog
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN :
African Masks surveys 248 of the finest examples of masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection, of which 100 are reproduced in stunning color illustrations. Leading scholars on African art describe the masks' historical and religious functions, and their symbolic significance.
Author : Clyde Taylor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 1998-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253211927
Taylor exposes the concept of 'art' as a tool of ethnocentricity and radical ideology. He challenges the history of aesthetics as a recent invention of privileged Western consumerism and questions the myth of its ancient Greek origin.
