About this title: "Column to Volume: Formal Innovation in Chamba Statuary" investigates the appearance on world art markets during the 1970s of statues identified as Chamba from West Africa. Sought after for their artful execution, these statues were stylistically unlike anything previously documented from the region. Are they what the art market claimed? Who made them, when, where and why?To answer these questions, Richard Fardon and Christine Stelzig had to combine the findings of ethnographic research in Cameroon and Nigeria with museum and archival research and the testimonies of art dealers and collectors ...
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Saffron Books, London, England
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781872843476ISBN:1872843476
Description: New. Laminated soft cover. 160 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps, index, bibliography. The book investigates the appearance on world art markets during the 1970s of statues identified as Chamba from West Africa Volume One in Saffron Afriscopes Series, Investigates the appearance on world art markets during the 1970s of statues identified as Chamba from West Africa. Sought after for their artful execution, these statues were stylistically unlike anything previously documented from the ... read more
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