African Art - Hardcover

Ivan Bargna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8816690054 ISBN 13: 9788816690059

Publisher: Jaca Books/Antique Collector's Club, 2000

Synopsis

The concept of Africa as an entity is a recent and largely artificial idea. Africa is made up of very diverse cultures, tribes, religions, traditions and geographies and it is constantly changing. In this thought provoking study of African art Bargna emphasises the need to connect individual items to ethnographic information with the aesthetic experience. It is important also, not to bring to the study of African art the trappings of the traditional artistic judgements with which Western art is viewed. The rich and varied production of the African continent is viewed and interpreted in terms of its close relationship with the world of the sacred, of myth and of religious ritual practices. The illustrations form a prime feature of the book. There are stunning photographs of masks, sculptures, textiles, ceramics and household and ritual objects which testify to the huge diversity of many different cultures all grouped under a geographical umberella. These, as much as the original approach of the t

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About this edition

• Publisher: Jaca Books/Antique Collector's Club
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 8816690054
• ISBN 13: 9788816690059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240