Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures

Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures /

Over the centuries, artists across sub-Saharan Africa have memorialized eminent figures in their societies using an astonishingly diverse repertoire of naturalistic and abstract sculptural idioms. Adopting complex aesthetic fromulations, they idealized their subjects but also added specific details-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: LaGamma, Alisa
Corporate Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Museum Rietberg
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Haven [Conn.] : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press, 2011.
Series:Metropolitan Museum of Art publications
Subjects:
Figure sculpture, African > Exhibitions.
Portrait sculpture, African > Exhibitions.
Sculpture > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions.
Art and society > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions.
Art and society.
Figure sculpture, African.
Portrait sculpture, African.
Sculpture.
Held > Motiv
Häuptling > Motiv
Plastik
Constitutional law > Subsaharisches Afrika.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Subsaharisches Afrika
Ausstellung > New York, NY > 2011.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Visual poems in praise of an ever-present past: Ife terracottas
  • Pageantry and ritual: the Akan
  • Dancing figures and effigy thrones: Grassfield chiefdoms
  • The golden age of Shyáám and beyond: the Kuba
  • Of hunter princes and cherished maidens: the Chokwe and Luluwa
  • Sublime chiefs and the persistence of memory: the Hemba.

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