Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures Tapa dura - 2011

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011-11-29. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.0236 11.7323 8.8189.

Yale University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. Hardcover. Near new (just faintly bumped bottom corners) condition, covers bright, text clean & binding tight with a bright and crisp dust jacket.. Size: 8.75x11.75 inches. 312pp., illus.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 23 x 30 cm. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Maps. Audience: General/trade.

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Museum / YUP. New. 2011. Hardcover. 0300175841 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - - 312 pages. Description: "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—such as emblems of rank, scarification patterns, and elaborate coiffures—in order to evoke the individuals represented. Imbued with the essence of their formidable subjects, these works played an essential role in reifying ties with important ancestors at critical moments of transition. Often their transfer from one generation to the next was a prerequisite for conferring legitimacy upon the leaders who followed. The arrival of Europeans as traders, then as colonizers, led to the… Leer más