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Africa : the art of a continent : 100 works of power and beauty / [curated by Tom Phillips].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: New York : Guggenheim Museum, 1996Description: viii, 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0810968940
  • 9780810968943
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.6 21
Contents:
Introduction -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Why Africa? Why Art? -- Putting Northern Africa Back into Africa -- Historical Contacts and Cultural Interaction Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, the Muslim World, and Southern Europe, Tenth-Nineteenth Century A.D. -- Europe, African Art, and the Uncanny -- Enduring Myths of African Art -- Ancient Egypt and Nubia -- Eastern Africa -- Southern Africa -- Central Africa -- Western Africa and the Guinea Coast -- Sahel and Savanna -- Northern Africa -- Selected bibliography.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 709.6 AFR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A277051B

"This exhibition was organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in association with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 1995-21 January, 1996"--T.p. verso.

Accompanies the exhibition on display, Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 7-September 29, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (page 187).

Introduction -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Why Africa? Why Art? -- Putting Northern Africa Back into Africa -- Historical Contacts and Cultural Interaction Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, the Muslim World, and Southern Europe, Tenth-Nineteenth Century A.D. -- Europe, African Art, and the Uncanny -- Enduring Myths of African Art -- Ancient Egypt and Nubia -- Eastern Africa -- Southern Africa -- Central Africa -- Western Africa and the Guinea Coast -- Sahel and Savanna -- Northern Africa -- Selected bibliography.

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