Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures /

Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures / Alisa LaGamma.

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 : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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.

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Call Number: NB1091.65 .L34 2011
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