MAINS DE MAÎTRES. MASTERBANDS
Subtitle: Discovering African sculptors. Afrikaanse beeldbouwers in of kijker
Authors: B. Grunne / BASSANI E. / S. Klopper
Material Type: Exhibition Catalogue. Espace Culturel BBL – Cultuurcentrum, Brussels: 22.03 – 06.24.2001
Publisher: Arthur In Pix – Dereume Printing Company, Brussels, 2001. Paperback,, in-4, size: 24 x 30 cm
Content: 272 pp, 14 ill.. b / w, 166 ill. col., 11 maps, biblio., 1 sepia photo, 1 table
Additional information: limited release. Superb layout, nearly 100 masterpieces often illustrated with many color photographs showing different angles. Catalog of this exceptional exhibition organized at the Cultural Center BBL in Brussels from March to June 2001 – under the direction of Bernard de Grunne. Book exhausted become rare and sought after. Text in French and Dutch.
State of the book: New
Description
Collected as a souvenir or curiosity, African artistic production was so far mainly addressed from an ethnographic perspective, historical or aesthetic.
This exhibition, “Hands of Masters” offers a fresh look, the historians of primitive art, the discovery of these sculptors of Africa, this art without artists? Allocation problems in traditional arts of sub-Saharan Africa. Large workshops Soninké central Mali. Sakassou masters of the central Côte d’Ivoire.
Summary:
– Prologue (Bernard de Grunne)
– Art without artists? Attribution problems in traditional arts of sub-Saharan Africa (Ezio Bassani)
– Major workshops Soninké central Mali (Bernard de Grunne)
– Masters of Sakassou the center of the Ivory Coast (Bernard de Grunne)
– A master hand Mumuye eastern Nigeria (Bernard de Grunne)
– Atheist Atsa, sculptors, priest-kings and iconographic memory Bangwa in Cameroon (Bettina von Lintig)
– Masters Ntem: the fang mvaï sculptors Northeast Gabon (Louis Perrois)
– The master of the Sebe: Kota reliquary figures “death head” of eastern Gabon (Louis Perrois)
– Bibliography
– A great sculptor of the Congo: master Kasadi (Ezio Bassani)
– Some master carvers of the kingdoms of the Congo Basin (Bernard de Grunne)
– Kwanja Gete and bongo sculptors of Southern Sudan (Klaus-Jochen Krüger)
– The master of the little hands: the rediscovery of an artist in south-east Africa (Sandra Klopper)
– List of traditional sculptors listed (Bernard de Grunne)
Additional information
| Weight | 2010 g |
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| Dimensions | 24 × 30 cm |
