Displaying 1 of 1 2002 Format: Book Author: McClusky, Pamela. Title: Art from Africa : long steps never broke a back / Pamela McClusky ; with a contribution by Robert Farris Thompson. Publisher, Date: Seattle, Wash. : Seattle Art Museum ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002. Description: 302 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm Summary: "The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects-- in the Seatle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art." Subjects: Seattle Art Museum -- Exhibitions. Art, African -- Exhibitions. Art, Black -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions. Masks -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions. Ethnology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions. Art -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Exhibitions. Genre: Exhibition catalogs. Other Author: Thompson, Robert Farris. Seattle Art Museum. Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 7-May 19, 2002. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Preface / Mimi Gardner Gates -- Introduction / Pamela McClusky -- African Art in Motion / Robert Farris Thompson -- Case Histories: Art Steps from Africa to America / Pamela McClusky -- Heroes Go Solitary Walking: Hunters' Shirts -- An Art of Persuasion: Regalia from the Asante Kingdom -- Assembling a Royal Stage: Art from the Kom Kingdom -- The Fetish and the Imagination of Europe: Sacred Medicines of the Kongo -- A Sculpture Hungry for Aggression: Ivwri Figure -- Forest Spirits Far from Home: Dan Masks -- Beauty Stripped of Human Flaws: Sowei Masks -- "God's Medicine" against Witchcraft: Costume for Basinjom -- The Ultimate Spectacle for Powerful Mothers: Gelede Masks -- Riding into the Next Life: A Mercedes-Benz Coffin -- "Negatives That Brathe Like You and Me": Photographs from Bamako -- Collecting Beads and Wishes for the Future: Ornaments for a Maasai Bride -- Sande Society Stories. Web Site: Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2001049735 ISBN: 0691092753 9780691092751 0691092958 9780691092959 * 0853318488 9780853318484 0853318484 Other Number: 47995643 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 113769 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 709.67 McClusky Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
