About this title: This strikingly unusual and beautifully illustrated book represents a turning point in African art history. The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve 'case histories' of objects - or clusters of objects - in the Seattle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art. Each case history is enriched by comments from artists, art historians, writers, community members, and patrons who guide readers back into the markets, palaces, ceremonies, shrines, and streets where African art originated. Often sitting still and silent in a museum display case, ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2002-01-21
ISBN-13:9780691092959ISBN:0691092958
Description: Good. Ex-library copy w/ usual stamps and markings. Some shelf wear on cover, pages in good reading condition. Ships promptly in a padded mailer w/ delivery confirmation. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Seattle Art Museum / Princeton University Press 2002
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780691092959ISBN:0691092958
Description: ISBN 0691092958. Trade Paperback. Good to Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers, faint crease running down middle of front cover and slight curl to middle of book from improper storage, slight browning and dustsoiling to top edge of book. No statement of later printing on copyright page. read more
Binding: Cloth, d.j.
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780691092751ISBN:0691092753
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 10.75" x 8.75" 302 pages. 189 color plates, 50 duotones, 1 line illustration. Cataogue of an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. We ship to U.S. addresses from N.Y. state. read more
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