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Shields: Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. From the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum - Hardcover
This unique, richly illustrated book expolres the world of shields, interpreting them as beautiful objects with a language of their own. Drawing on the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, the authors examine the literary and mythological aspects of shields from Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, placing them in their historical context.
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Since ancient times the shield has had a variety of uses whether as a defensive - or more rarely, offensive - weapon, or as a ritual object invested with symbolic meanings. The authors reveal the shields' ethnic derivation and function. Illustrated with over 100 full-color photographs, as well as many drawings and historical pictures of individual shields in their original context, this book provides essential reading for collectors, students, and researchers, as well as for the general public interested in this little-known area of ethnographic art.
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Purissima Benitez-Johannt is an art historian and Assistant Curator at the Brabier-Mueller Museum in Geneva. Jean-Paul Barbier, Director of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, has written numerous articles in specialist publications and encyclopedias. Alain-Michel Boyer, currently the Director of Research and Professor of African Literature and Art at the University of Nantes, has published extensively and received several awards for his work.
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- PublisherPrestel
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 3791323415
- ISBN 13 9783791323411
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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