Heroic Africans :legendary leaders, iconic sculptures

• 作者: LaGamma, Alisa.
• 其他作者: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) , Museum Rietberg.
• 出版: New York :New Haven [Conn.] : Metropolitan Museum of Art ;distributed by Yale University Press 2011.
• 稽核項: xi, 298 p. :ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ;31 cm.
• 標題: Subsaharisches Afrika. , Plastik. , Figure sculpture, African Exhibitions. , Ausstellung New York (NY) -- 2011. , Hauptling (Motiv) , Ausstellung NewYork -- 2011. , Portrait sculpture, African , Portrait sculpture, African Exhibitions. , Art and society , Art and society Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions. , Sculpture Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions. , Held (Motiv) , Sculpture , Figure sculpture, African
• ISBN: 0300175841 , 9780300175844
• 附註: Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, at later dates. 100年度教育部購置教學研究相關圖書儀器及設備計畫. Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 摘要: 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--such as emblems of rank, scarification patterns, and elaborate coiffures--in order to evoke the individuals represented. Imbued with the essence of their formidable subjects, these works played an essential role in reifying ties with important ancestors at critical moments of transition. Often their transfer from one generation to the next was a prerequisite for conferring legitimacy upon the leaders who followed. The arrival of Europeans as traders, then as colonizers, led to the dislocation of many of these sculptures from their original sites, as well as from the contexts in which they were conceived; thus, today, they are seen primarily as timeless representations of generic archetypes. "Heroic Africans" reexamines the sculptures in terms of the individuals who inspired them and the cultural values that informed them, providing insight into the hidden meaning and inspiration behind these great artistic achievements.
• 系統號: 005063325
• 資料類型: 圖書
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