Art from Africa by Robert Farris Thompson & Pamela McClusky & Leasa Farrar Fortune

Long Steps Never Broke a Back

This work explores issues that remain unexposed in museum presentations of African art. Responding to questions posed by audiences who read the usual label but still want to know more, it looks intensively at a small number of objects including art from the Kom Kingdom and Maasai bride ornaments. This volume explores issues that remain unexposed in museum presentations of African art. It responds to questions posed by audiences who read the usual label but still want to know more. Why is the figure pounded with nails not called a fetish any more? Exactly how old is this and how do you know? When was this collected, by whom and from whom? What is happening in this part of Africa today? Who displayed this as art and why? Given that many museum catalogues reproduce terse label formats and leave these same questions unanswered, this book has been designed to look intensively at a small number of objects. Each author begins discussion with a personal suggestion of what motivates his or her inquiry and then leads the reader through new research, often using direct quotes from African primary sources and museum records that are usually not available to Western audiences. Objects covered include hunters' shirts from Mali, Liberia and Ghana; regalia from the Asante Kingdom; art from the Kom Kingdom, Cameroon; Minkisi and sacred medicines of the Kongo; Ivwri figures from Nigeria; masks from Liberia and the Ivory Coast; sacred coffins from Ghana; and ornaments for a Maasai bride. The illustrations are drawn from the major Katherine White collection of African art held at Seattle Art Museum.
`Author(s) :` Robert Farris Thompson & Pamela McClusky	`Format :` Hardback Book
`ISBN-10 :` 0853318484	`ISBN-13 :` 9780853318484
`RRP :` £52.50	`Best available price :` £ / $
`Prices as of : BST check live prices`

store	stock level	item price	inc. delivery
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
	Not available
Delivery prices - shown in this table - are for the cost of a domestic delivery, as given by the company.

Product Details:

Country Publication : United Kingdom

Publication Date : 28/02/2002

Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

Page Length : 304mm

Page Size : 225mm