Art of Africa / Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, Lucien Stéphan. The principal ethnic groups of African art / by Françoise Stoullig-Marin ; translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kerchache, Jacques
Other Authors:	Paudrat, Jean Louis, Stéphan, Lucien, Stoullig-Marin, Françoise
Format:	Book
Language:	English French
Published:	New York : H.N. Abrams, 1993.
Subjects:	Sculpture, Black > Africa, West.
Uniform Title:	Art africain.

Table of Contents:

Preface / Anne de Margerie
Introduction / Jean-Louis Paudrat
Pt. 1. Comparative Aesthetics and African Sculpture / Lucien Stephan. I. The "Pilot Look" Misreadings. Terms, Meanings, Concepts. II. The Naturalist Encumbrance. Representation of Proportions and the Proportions of Representation. Representation of Space and the Space of Representation. The Representation of the Individual. Expression and the Representation of Expression. III. The Functionalist Approach. Forms and Functions. Function and Representation. Presence and Power. Functionalism and Artistic Production. IV. The Pleasure of Seeing. Orientation: The Ethnologist and the Aesthete. In Search of an African Aesthetics. Orientations in Comparative Aesthetics. Forms
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Pt. 2. African Art: The Golden Age. The Western Sudan and the Coast of Guinea. Archeology and History in Nigeria. Central Sudan, the Cross River, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Grassland of Cameroon. Central Africa. Eastern and Southern Africa, Madagascar.
An Initiatory Passage / Jacques Kerchache. The Principal Ethnic Groups / Francoise Stoullig-Marin. Map.

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