cornet joseph thompson (4 Ergebnisse)

Hard cover. Text in English, French. 365 p. Audience: General/trade. Good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has edgewear and several repaired tears, now in mylar. Text unmarked. Tipped-in plates are all included.

Paperback. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). Trade PB. 4to. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 1981. 256 pgs. Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Over many years now, Robert Farris Thompson has presented African systems of thought, expression, and being in the most compelling of ways. In this classic study of Kongo and related peoples of Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thompson's insights are matched by his singular ability as a wordsmith: No one engages language as does he, and readers will find themselves jotting down phrases for their own uses, even as they contemplate what it takes to study and understand profound complexities of African ways of being in the world as has the author. After enjoying Four Moments of the Sun, it will not surprise to readers that Thompson was once described in The Village Voice as a "guerilla scholar" for his willingness to defy platitudes. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 pages.

Paper. Zustand: Very good. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). First edition. Softcover paper (illustrated) wrap. 4to. 256 pp. Illustrated with 196 b/w plate photographs, with an additional 89 b/w plates of pieces in the exhibition. An exhibition catalogue of a show of the same name that took place at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from August 1981 to January 1982. Head and fore edge slightly yellowed. Spine and back cover sunned. Wear along the foot. Text block clean, and binding is strong and square.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1982 , 256 pp Robert Farris Thompson and Joseph Cornet National Gallery of Art Washington Soft Cover Kongo Civilization and Kongo Art The Structure of Recollection The Kongo New World Visual Tradition Stone Funerary Sculpture Funerary Terra Cottas.