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Like the Gorgon Medusa, whose decapitated head could still petrify those who met its gaze, African sculptured and masks fascinate us even out if their original context.
This catalogue of the exhibition Medusa. The African Sculpture of Enchantement, curated by Boris Wastiau of the Musée d'ethnographie de Gèneve, presents one hundred and twenty pieces from the museum's collection crafted with consummate skill. In an essay illustrated by magnificent photographs, the author takes us throughout sub-Saharan Africa and shows us how African art can be seen as a "technology of enchantement".
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Boris Wastiau is curator of the departments of Africa and the Americas at the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva. He is author of the book Chokwe in the 5 Continents Visions of Africa series.
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- Publisher5Continents
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 8874394691
- ISBN 13 9788874394692
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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