Language: English
Published by Mercatorfonds/Yale University Press, Brussels, 2023
ISBN 10: 0300267010 ISBN 13: 9780300267013
Seller: Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, United Kingdom
US$ 110.02
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very good. 26 x 34cm 360pp very good hardback with an interview between the collectors and the editor. The contents are divided into categories such as: Ancestors, Spirits, Kota, Fetishes, Secret Societies, Masks, Ornaments, Preastige Objects together with single page black and white reproductions. A very heavy book, may need extra postage.
Condition: gut. Fetiches et objets ancestraux d'Afrique / African fetishes and ancestral objects ENG/FR In deutscher Sprache. pages.
Published by , 5 Continents Editions, 2013, 2013
Hardcover with dustjacket, 259 pages, ENG/FR ,Illustrated , 290 x 250 x 28 mm ISBN 9788874396542. The seventy-plus carved objects from the Democratic Republic of the Congo presented in this book have something remarkable in common: They are permeated with the powers of magic and sorcery, and are believed to be inhabited by the spirits of nature and the ghosts of ancestors. Selected with great care by Patric Didier Claes, a Belgian expert in African art, the works are from the Kingdom of Luba, at the source of the Congo, and the Kingdoms of Kongo and Teke. Each sculpture is identified, indexed, meticulously described, placed in context, and pinpointed as an example of the particular carving style of a specific workshop. Text in English and French. 1900 g.