Isbn: 9780896591035 - treasures of african art (8 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Oversized Hardback. Zustand: Fair - Cash. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. Corners have been bumped a bit. Front hinge broken, paste-downs ripped along that edge. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. The dust jacket has some surface rubbing, edgewear and tears, and creases. Has some tears, some taped, on back. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1980; New York; black cloth covered boards with gold titles; mild wear; dust jacket is rubbed with a sticker on the front cover; interior is clean and unmarked; Folio, 12" to 15" tall; 132 pages; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 136pp hardback, black cloth gilt in wrapper, full page plates in colour some folding.

Zustand: Very Good. 136, col photos throughout, some fold-out plates. 390x305mm. HB. Large-4to (390x305mm), orig. cloth. Vg in d/w. From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his signature to endpaper. Based on the collections at the Museum of Mankind, British Museum, where the author was Keeper of the Department of Ethnography. [9780896591035].…

Zustand: Gut. 132 S. mit großformatigen farbigen Illustrationen; 39 cm. Gutes Ex.; Umschl. etwas berieben. - Englisch. - . Professor McLeod, Keeper of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum, interweaves history with anecdote to illuminate these African masks, carvings, and gold objects, collected mainly over the last 100 years. His text captures the character of the civilization that spills out through these works. The sophistication and wry humor of the Asante is exemplified by the spokesman's staff, symbol of royal power, whose decoration illustrates the adage: "If there are two people sitting at table, it is not necessarily the hungry one who eats" [but, rather, the one with the right to eator rule]. Elsewhere, a Basongye stool, fashioned as a squatting human figure, brings home the message of the saying: Obi te obi so"There is always somebody sitting on somebody else." African masks and images were related to the particular system of belief and economics around which a tribe was organized. Some crude masks were made by pubescent boys for initiation rites; some terra-cotta images had the power to promote female fertility; and other artifacts were simply amusing toys. Where there was a strong, centralized government, long-lasting exquisite images from finely wrought gold jewelry to the huge, imposingly carved doors of the Benin royal palaceswere created to stress the continuity and permanence of the king, and court artisans worked exclusively to glorify and embellish the throne. . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Benin Ivory Mask ---- Commentary ---- Introduction ---- Brass Mask ---- Bakuba Mask ---- Benin Hornblower ---- Batetela Mask ---- Golden Umbrella Finial ---- Lower Niger Bronze Head ---- Kongo Figure ---- Bulom-Portuguese Ivory ---- Afro-Portuguese Salt ---- Angas Mask ---- Akan Female Figure ---- Two Terra-cotta Heads ---- Bakuba Geometric Mask ---- Bakuba Ndop ---- Ife Head ---- Baga Mask ---- Bambara Mask ---- Basongye Fetish ---- Benin Drummer ---- Fu-fu Pounding ---- Sherbro Stone Sculpture ---- Asante Gold Lion ---- Benin Horseman ---- Baga Nimba Mask ---- Bura Figure ---- Oba's Head ---- Brass Horseman ---- Palm-Wine Cups ---- Cross River Skin-covered Mask ---- Kalahari Ijo Screen ---- Benin Royal Plaque ---- Yoruba Horseman ---- Yoruba Palace Doers ---- Leopard Plaque ---- Baluba Mask ---- Zulu Figure ---- Igbo Display Piece ---- Benin Queen ---- Mother's Head ---- Bambara Female Figure ---- Asante Spokesman's Staff ---- Fang Figure ---- Yoruba Lion ---- Brass Leopard ---- Ivory Leopards ---- Bena Kanvoka Pipe ---- Benin Plaque ---- Two Zande Figures ---- Benin Grotesque Head ---- Three Gold Elephants ---- Baluba-Shankadi Figure ---- Makonde Helmet Mask ---- Bayaka Mask ---- (u.a.m.) ISBN 0896591034 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000 Originalleinen mit farb. illustr. Schutzumschlag. …