COLLECTING AFRICAN ART

Description

It was high time that a book on African art is written by a collector for collectors – William Fagg (ethnography former curator at the British Museum and now a consultant at Christie on tribal art) begins his introduction to this book. As the contribution of William Fagg that is more than collecting plea (in fact its introduction proposes a radical innovation in practice) so therefore, the book of Werner Gillon is a guide to all the fans and enthusiasts, collectors and students the multiplicity and variety of African art. For here are documented more than 150 tribes that produce sculptures and other objects not only well-known areas of Congo and Niger but artistically unexplored regions of eastern and southern Africa. The variety of work in the continent is illustrated with over 200 photographs, many specially commissioned for this book. Gillon Werner brings to his study of the passion of a collector and the acumen of a scholar.