THE SCULPTURE OF NIGER
Subtitle: Ethnographic study
Author: Z. Ligers
Material Type: general or thematic Work
Publisher: Librairie des Cinq Continents, Paris, 1971. Hardcover cardboard editor under folded jacket illustrated with black and white drawing, in-4, size: 25 x 32 cm, ISBN 0-87908-023-X
Content: 168 pp, 48 plates reproducing figures drawn 103 b / w.
Additional information: original edition, limited release. This book, now out of print, was fired to 1050 copies, numbered and marked with the initials. This original edition will not be reprinted or translated into another language. This volume carries the No. 231. Rare Book and uncommon on the Nigerian sculpture.
State of the work: Very good condition
Description
This book is the result of nearly two years of research work, including more than half spent on the ground in Africa. All published material only from the author’s own research Ziedonis Ligers (Research Scientist at the National Center for Scientific Research). Information about these artifacts were collected alive and for technical reasons only a small choices can be delivered to the public and to the extent that they contain only ethnographic information. (Unless otherwise indicated, vernacular names are those Sorko language). The sculpture represents only one aspect of the Nigerian art. To give it its rightful place, we must never forget that the creations of other genres of Nigerian art – architecture, wall painting, basketry, leatherwork, weaving, pyrography, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, jewelery – we attested aitres a multitude of masterpieces, no less impressive. Contents: – anthropomorphic and zoomorphic Figures. – Pallets carved ‘tengere’. – The masks. – Furniture and carved utensils. – Weapons sculpture.
Additional information
| Weight | 1500 g |
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| Dimensions | 25 × 32 cm |
