THE BIG STATUARY HEMBA OF ZAIRE
Author: F. NEYT
Material Type: general or thematic Work
Publisher: Higher Institute of Archaeology and History of Art, Publications of Art History and Archaeology of the Catholic University of Louvain – XII, Louvain-La-Neuve, 1977. Bound with binding of ‘blue draped editor with gold as recessed under jacket illustrated very good condition with wear color use due to its age, in-4, size: 22 x 27.5 cm
Content: 520 p, 300 ill. b / w, 4 ill. col., 8 maps, biblio.
Additional information: limited release. Book became exhausted rare and sought by collectors for its thematic and comparative study on the large statuary Hemba Zaire: Absolute Reference Book and unique to date that combines rigorous scientific standard and exceptional plastic presentation. The author, François Neyt, who taught African Arts at the National University of Zaire, was able to gather a prominent iconographic choices: An exemplary contribution to the history of art Hemba.
State of the work: Very good condition
Description
Still little known, the great sculptor Hemba found here its importance for the knowledge of African arts course, but also because it helps clarify many obscure points remained the political, social and economic societies that the have occurred. One hundred and twenty significant sculptures – mostly unpublished to date – have been carefully selected and analyzed so as not to leave out any valuable information that can provide these privileged and unknown witnesses. Art book, it focuses not just the aesthetic value of the works studied with precision and sensitivity, but also technical anonymous artists and workshops that we have inherited. parallel, the author has collected on the ground the evidence of the oral tradition, re-read the stories of travelers, and studied the territorial administration archives. The comparison of these various testimonies renews commonly accepted ideas about faith remained fragmentary information. Fruit of a patient survey conducted with rigor, this book is thus a valuable contribution to the complex history of Hemba. Art and Civilization, impressive solidarity among Hemba, trace lines and all migratory corroborate vividly the importance of art for an understanding of the pre-colonial history in black Africa.
Additional information
| Weight | 2390 g |
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| Dimensions | 22 × 27.5 cm |
