Antiquarian Ethnographic Reference

Howard S. Rose - New York Important African Art 2002 * Ancestral Figures * Staffs * Masks * Implements * Gold Dust Boxes and Weights * Vessels *

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Author/s	Publisher/City	Year	Printer/City
Arte Primitivo / Howard S. Rose Gallery	Howard S. Rose Gallery, New York (NY - USA)	2002	same as on left
Pages	Binding	Illustrations	Size (l x w - cm)
(56) un-numbered	heavy stock paper [see SCANs - above + below]	350+ in colour	28.1 x 21.8 cm
Condition	Language/s	Shipped Via	Weight
EXCELLENT		USA - Priority Foreign - Global Priority	200 g fits in the USPS Priority Flat Rate mailer

About This Antiquarian Book

This Antiquarian LONG OUT OF PRINT auction catalogue lists and describes 158 Lots, of an absolutely incredible selection of African Masks, Ancestor Figures and other Items ! Included are -- face and helmet masks, game boards, human and animal carvings, ancestral and maternity figures, ceremonial staffs, fetishes, gold dust spoons and gold weights, Ibedji [that's how I learned to spell it] or twin figures -- in wood, terracotta, iron, elephant ivory, brass and bronze, among OTHERS! Cultures include -- Mende, Senufo, Dan, Baule, Guro, Ashanti, Attie, Ewe, Benin, Yoruba, Ibo, Lobi, Mossi, Dogon, Bamana, and MORE! WOWSERS! WOWSERS! I have been interested in African art for almost 40 years, since I studied and taught in the Canary Islands, off the north west coast of the African continent. A French woman who had a gallery there introduced me to the cult items which she personally collected, and we spent much time studying and discussing the artifacts. I had a fabulous collection, but sold most of it to the local Mueum of Ethnology before I returned to the States some 20 years ago. I have rarely run across a reference source as diversified in fabulous cult items and cultural artifacts from the dark continent! Many of these awesome treasures which came from distant times have, in their abstract imaginative presentation, created by artists / artisans following social norms, tastes, spirituality and a multitude of techniques, helped shape our own highly techno modern world, and their appreciation and understanding allows us to feel at home in a sometimes seemingly alien world and permits us to broaden our horizons in many ways. Picasso founded Cubism as a major new form of modern art, based largely on the African sculptures and masks he had in his personal collection -- it reduces all of the details of a subject to its simplest form, basically that of lines and suggestive shapes -- it sort of abstracts the soul of the source, and relies on our unconscious intuition to recognize what it represents. If you have already begun your own personal computer interactive relational database of these highly artistic and creative items, you will most certainly find many new ones to add to it in this reference, both in fabulous color photos as well as in descriptive details. Lavishly illustrated ! Antiquarian Book in EXCELLENT+ Condition!! Return to Books List

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