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Published by Center for African Art, 1988
ISBN 10: 0945802013ISBN 13: 9780945802013
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are lightly age toned. Binding is sturdy. Covers are lightly edge worn and lightly shelf scuffed. International/Priority shipping at cost. 255pp.
Published by Center for African Art, 1988
ISBN 10: 0945802013ISBN 13: 9780945802013
Book
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket slightly sunned. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Published by Center for African Art : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Neues Pub. Co., New York City, 1989
ISBN 10: 3791308807ISBN 13: 9783791308807
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 255 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm. Catalogue of a loan exhibition held at the Center for African Art, New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Contents: Introduction: Africa and the Renaissance / Susan Vogel European perspections of black Africans in the Renaissance / Peter Mark 1. The legacy of the navigator 2. The Afro-Portugues Ivories 3. An art of stillness and beauty: The Sapi-Portuguese Ivories: Saltcellers ; Pyxes ; Spoons, forks and knife handles 4. Sources for the Sapi-Portugues Ivories 5. Sapi workshops and artists 6. Conclusions on the Sapi-Portuguese Ivories 7. The Bini-Portuguese Ivories: enter movement : The guild of ivory carvers ; Oliphants ; Salts ; Spoons 8. The Bini-Portuguese artists 9. A conjectural digression among the bronze casters 10. A problematic Yoruba-Portuguese Saltcellal 11. The Afro-Portuguese Apocrypha : An enigmatic Sapi-Portuguese oliphant ; The Kongo oliphant ; A unique Kongo knife case ; Kongo geometric motifs ; The mysterious fluted oliphants 12. Conclusions on the Afro-Portuguese Ivories Notes Catalogue Raisonne Bibliography Photograph Credits.