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Description for African Arts
Hardback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; ACXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 285 x 286 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2600.
This gorgeous book highlights seventy works from an important private collection built over more than four decades with discipline, curiosity, and passion. It is one of the finest private collections of African art from West and Central Africa, through South Africa and Madagascar. Conceived around four main themes - Governance and transmission, Protection and caring, Coming together (celebrating, partying, judging and praising), Serving and beautifying - this selection offers a capacious general introduction to the topic of African art and furthers our understanding of the artworks' source cultures. The beautiful photographs of the seventy works in the first part ... Read more
This gorgeous book highlights seventy works from an important private collection built over more than four decades with discipline, curiosity, and passion. It is one of the finest private collections of African art from West and Central Africa, through South Africa and Madagascar. Conceived around four main themes - Governance and transmission, Protection and caring, Coming together (celebrating, partying, judging and praising), Serving and beautifying - this selection offers a capacious general introduction to the topic of African art and furthers our understanding of the artworks' source cultures. The beautiful photographs of the seventy works in the first part ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Five Continents Editions Italy
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Milan, Italy
ISBN
9788874397440
SKU
V9788874397440
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Patrick Caput
Patrick Caput is a collector, international consultant and expert in African and Oceanic art. Valentine Plisnier is a teacher and researcher in History of Art and has written major works summarising the impact of non-European art in photographic modernity from 1918 until today.
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