9780300123760 - African Art from The Menil Collection (Menil Collection (YUP)) (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 239 pages. 115 pieces illustrated in color. Additional color and 29 black & white photographs. Contributions by Marla Berns, Barbara Blackmun, Arthur Bourgeois, Elisabeth Cameron, Marie Yvonne Curtis, Kate Ezra, Cecile Fromont, Mary Lamabrakos, Miranda Lash, Dominique Malaquais, Salia Male, Jessica Levin Martinez, Prita Meier, Constantine Petridis, Allen Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts, Doran Ross, Christopher Roy, Wm. Siegmann, Leon Siroto, Robert Soppelsa, Susan Sutton and Robert Farris Thompson. U.S. orders are shipped from N.Y. state.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine Condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine Condition. 239 pages with 115 illustrations in color. Foreword by Josef Helfenstein. Introduction by Kristina Van Dyke. Works Cited. Index of Objects. List of Contributors.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new, still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Physical description; 239 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 30 cm. Summary; Bamana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculpture, and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African artifacts found in the renowned Menil Collection. This stunning book-the first comprehensive catalogue on the de Menils' collection of African art-features 115 of the museum's finest pieces. Dating primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, these works come from North Africa and the Sahel, Coastal West Africa, and Central and East Africa. An essay by scholar Kristina Van Dyke discusses the formation of the collection, which was inspired in part by its relationship to modernist works and by the couple's interest in human rights. This insightful text also explains how the de Menils' visionary spirit was influenced by African art and places those objects within the context of the whole of the de Menils' collection, in which works from ancient, Byzantine, medieval, modern, Oceanic, and Native American cultures speak to the universal struggle for human understanding. Entries for the selected works were written by leading scholars in the field and are grouped into sections based on regions. Subjects; Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) Catalogs. Art, African Catalogs. 4 Kg.

hardbound. profusely illustrated (illustrator). Comprehensive catalogue of the renowned Menil Collection of African Art; edited and with an essay by Kristina Van Dyke, with contributions by various authors; three major sections: North Africa and the Sahel, Coastal West Africa, Central and East Africa; copiously illustrated with full-colour plates throughout; b&w and colour text illustrations; Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper. 239pp. 4to. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.