20.0 x 21.5cms (landscape), 216pp, colour & b/w illusts, very good+ hardback with decorated boards (no dustwrapper as issued) The essays cover: children's toys from post-colonial Africa; art without airs. N° de ref. del artículo 125762

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Título: Africa On The Move: Toys From West Africa / ...

Editorial: Arnoldsche Stuttgart 2004

Año de publicación: 2004

Encuadernación: Hardcover

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Book by Stefan Eisenhofer Jacques Froidevaux Karin Guggeis

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Creatively and lovingly made at first by children for their own use, toys of recycled material have been on offer from the 1980s at traditional West African markets and are enormously popular. The Swiss collection comprising 150 items shown here has been amassed over the past ten years. Assembled with the simplest of techniques, toys such as motorbikes, cars, lorries, air-planes and military equipment are conjured up from all sorts of materials (wire, tin cans, plastic,wood, scraps of metal and cloth) with no limits set on their creators' imagination. Most of these toys are vehicles, which shows the status mobility has in African society. By now small workshops have emerged to ensure the survival of toy-making families. Text in English, German and French

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