FOR SPIRITS AND KINGS

Description

“For Spirits and Kings” presents the art of six major regions south of the Sahara: Western Sudan, the coast of Guinea, Nigeria, Equatorial Africa, Central Africa and South-East. Susan Voguel, curator of African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has made a valuable general introduction and a brief essay on the art of each of the areas listed. Outstanding examples of the art of each zone are then illustrated with stunning photographs and discussed by leading experts and seventy of the United States, Europe and Africa. Each author wrote about objects in its field of expertise, and many writers have completed their texts with field photographs showing objects associated in traditional contexts. The result is a magnificent book that Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum, called “scholarly ambitious project, a true anthology of the latest knowledge … a major contribution to the field of African Studies. »