Art From Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Backincludes essays by Robert Farris Thompson, Professor of African and African American Art History at Yale University, and Pamela McClusky, Seattle’s founding curator of the Department of the Arts of African, Oceania, and the Americas. Known for his scintillating analyses of African art, Thompson devotes his opening essay to introducing the missing dimension of motion, exploring the meaning of postures and gestures in various African cultures. McClusky explores subjects ranging from royal art of the Kom and Asante kingdoms, masquerades from the Yoruba, Dan and Mende cultures, hunters’ shirts from the Mande empire, sculpture from the Kongo kingdom, Mercedes-Benz coffins from the streets of Ghana, photographs from Mali, and Maasai body ornaments. read more about the exhibition
Pamela McClusky and Robert Farris Thompson
Contribution by Seattle Art Museum Staff
Normal price $35.00
from October 3, 2004 - January 2, 2005.
Dimensions: 8 ˝ x 10 ˝.
304 pages. 189 color plates, 50 halftones. ISBN 0-691-09295-8
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