Art and craft in africa: every life ritual,court
31/10/1995 00:00:00 Editions Pierre TerrailISBN:- 9782879390987
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Book | CGLAS Library | Yellow | 709.6 MEY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 02830 |
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709.6 EIS African art / | 709.6 LAM Seven stories about modern art in Africa / | 709.6 MAG Contemporary art of Africa / | 709.6 MEY Art and craft in africa: every life ritual,court | 709.6 OKE African artists : from 1882 - now. | 709.6 PAN Pangaea II : new art from Africa and Latin America / | 709.6 PAN Pangaea : Saatchi Gallery / |
This is a presentation of African arts and crafts which provides a study of vessels and spoons, furniture, beaten bark and materials, jewellery, arms, musical instruments and ceremonial objects, from an aesthetic and ethnological viewpoint. Introduction : The art of the object in Black Africa -- 1. Furnishings for the hut and palace -- 2. The culinary arts : bowls, bottles and spoons -- 3. The colourful world of textiles and woodbark -- 4. The splendour of jewellery and adomments [sic] -- 5. Weapons for combat and prestige -- 6. The pleasures of social life : music, games and tobacco -- 7. Regalia, privilege of the great chiefs -- Map -- Where to see African objects.