A History of Art in Africa

I ed.: July 2005. Testo in inglese. IV piccolo / 544/ rilegatura cartonata rifinita in carta satinata con grafica in n/b/rosso ed illustrata a colori ai piatti e al dorso. Illustrazioni in b/n e a colori nel testo e f.t. (700 illustrations, including 120 plates infull color, and 9 maps). Sguardie in cartoncino liscio rosso mattone. Stato buono-ottimo. Contents: Preface; Rowland Abiodun - Africa, art, and history: an introduction; Suzanne Blier - From the Nile to the Niger (The Sahara and the Maghreb; Monica Blackmun Visonà (Central Saharan Rock Art - The Maghreb and the Ancient Mediterranean - The Coming of Islam - Regional Berber Arts - Contemporary Art of North Africa - Aspects of African Culture: Personal Adornment) - Lands of the Nile: Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia; Monica Blackmun Visonà (Early Nile Cultures - Kemet - Kush - Axum and Its Time - Early Christian Arts of Nubia and Ethiopia - Islamic Art of Egypt - Later Christian Art of Ethiopia - Lower Nubia Before the Aswan Dam - Contemporary Artists of Sudan and Ethiopia) - The Central Sudan; Monica Blackmun Visonà (Ancient Art in Fired Clay - Living Arts of Small Communities - The Imperial Arts of the Kanuri and Hausa - The Fulani) - Mande Worlds and the Upper Niger; Monica Blackmun Visonà (In the Sphere of Ancient Empires - Recent Mande Arts: Nyamakalaw and Their Work - Arts of the Home - Art for the International Market) - The Western Sudan; Herbert M. Cole (The Tellem - The Dogon - The Senufo - Related Peoples of Burkina Faso)) - Western Africa (West Atlantic Forests; Monica Blackmun Visonà (Early Arts - Masking and Related Arts - Cross-Currents and Hybrid Forms - Contemporary International Art) - Akan Worlds; Herbert M. Cole (The Visual-Verbal Nexus - Regalia and Arts of Statecraft - Metal Arts: The Culture of Gold - Textiles - Terracotta Funerary Sculpture - Wood Sculpture and Shrines - Royal Festivals in Ghana - Baule Masks and Masquerades - Age-Grade Arts of Lagoons Peolples - Arts of Fante Military Companies - Lives Well Lived: Contemporary Funerary Arts - International Art - Aspects of African Culture: Art and Leadership) - The Yoruba and the Fon; Robert poynor (Early Ife - Early Owo - Esie - Recent Yoruba - Dahomey - Modern Arts - Aspect of African Culture: Lost-Wax Casting) - The Lower Niger; Herbert M. Cole (Igbo Ukwu - Recent and Contemporary Igbo Arts - Shared Themes in Lower Niger Arts - Ibibio Memorial Arts - Oron Ancestral Figures - Kalabari Ijaw Festivals and Memorial Arts - Benin: Six Centuries of Royal Arts - Mamy Wata - Aspects of African Culture: Shrines and Altars)) - Central Africa (Cross River, Cameroon Grasslands, and Gabon; Robert Poynor (Cross River - Cameroon Grasslands - Maritime Arts: The Duala - Gabon - Contemporary International Arts - Aspects of African Culture: Masquerades) - The Western Congo Basin; Robert Poynor (Early Art - The Congo Kingdom - The Teke - In the Sphere of the Lunda Empire - The Salampasu - The Kuba - In the Shadow of the Kuba: The Ndngese, the Binji, and the Wongo - The Lulua - Contemporary Urban and International Art) - The EasternCongo Basin; Robert Poynor (Early Art from the Upemba Depression - In the Sphere of the Luba Empire - Socities of the Lega, the Bembe, the Mbole, and the Azande - Court Art of the Azande and the Mangbetu - The Mbuti - Contemporary Arts - Aspects of African Culture: Rites of Passage)) - Eastern and Southern Africa (Eastern Africa; Monica Blackmun Visonà (The Swahili Coast - Other Coastal Bantu Cultures - Prestige Arts of the Interlacustrine Region - Masquerades ant Other Arts of the Maravi, the Makonde, the Makua, and the Yao - Madagascar - Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan Speakers of the Interior - Contemporary Artists of Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya - Aspects of African Culture) - Souther Africa; Monica Blackmun Visonà (Rock Art of Southern and Eatern Africa - Early Art of Bantu Speakers - Recent Art of the Shona and Their Neighbors - Arts of the Sotho and the Nguni - Art and Contemporary Issu