Icon and Image A study of sacred and secular forms of African classical art

Editorial: Allen Lane, London,, 1974

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Hardcover, large octavo, xv + 331pp., 219 monochrome plates, 2 maps, 6 tables. Owner's name on front pastedown. Light foxing to endpapers, upper text block edge spotted; boards worn, rubbed at edges, spine ends, some fraying; dustwrapper slightly frayed, esp. around spine panel, but bright and intact. Good in like dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Denis Williams' magisterial survey of African classical sculpture and metallurgy both establishes an aesthetic relevant to the judgement of his whole field and makes an important contribution to the study of form and technique. As the outlines of African history are pieced together, attention will increasingly be paid to the history of African art. But though written records, archaeology, material culture and oral tradition provide a wealth of source material, not many media of expression in African art submit to a traditional historical treatment. A historical picture emerges most satisfactorily in the study of iron and bronze. "Icon and Image" attempts to present such a picture, through an examination of the techniques and cults associated with particular forms. If the book seems weighted in this direction this is because very little in the study of African art can simply be assumed, even where the evidence refers to hallowed local or oral traditions. The title suggests a degree of interpretation of the material, though it has to be admitted that, like the word 'Art', these terms, and many others of art-scholarship, have no equivalents in the languages of the peoples responsible for the objects thus described, which are nonetheless among the finest creations of man's plastic impulse.

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Título
Icon and Image A study of sacred and secular forms of African classical art
Autor
Williams, Denis
Editorial
Allen Lane, London,
Año de publicación
1974

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