World of Songye Passions and Collections

The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging This lavishly illustrated book brings a new approach to the masterpieces of Songye, a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo, exploring the styles of the different regions, the identification of Songye master artists, and the specificity of Kifwebe masks. The World of Songye displays a large number of unpublished and specially commissioned photographs of Songye works of art from private and public collections, and of historic field photographs. Edited by the unchallenged specialists of the subject with contributions from ten distinguished writers, World of Songye analyses Songye aesthetics and symbols, the Songye representation of animals and weapons and the history of collecting Songye artefacts in the field. It also explores the religious and magical functions and powers of Songye objects and their influence on modern art, focusing in particular on Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anne Vanderstraete-Van Cutsem is an art historian, author and curator of exhibitions at the Dapper, Wereldmuseum, and Barbier-Mueller museums. François Neyt is professor emeritus at Catholic University of Louvain and the author of numerous reference books on African Art.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dieter Buchhart, Jacques Cuisin, Kevin Dumouchelle, Lance Entwistle, Bernard de Grunne, Susan Kloman, Alexis Maggiar, Constantine Petridis, Dieter Cuisin Buchhart, Hans Himmelheber, François Neyt, Bernard Schweizer, Petridis Constantine, Cutsem Anne Vanderstraete-Van, Karel Timmermans, Victor Teodorescu, Bernard Cuisin, Dieter Dumouchelle Buchhart, Henrich Schweizer, Himmelheber Hans
• Mitarbeit: Cutsem Anne Vanderstraete-Van (Herausgeber), Francois Neyt (Herausgeber), François Neyt (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Yale University Press Ltd
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2024
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Kunstgeschichte
• EAN: 9780300267020
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26702-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 584
• Themen: Africa, ART / History / General, ART / African, HISTORY / Africa / Central, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Central Africa, African History