HEROIC AFRICANS
Subtitle: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Author: A. LaGamma
Material Type: Exhibition Catalogue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: septembre2011 20 / January 29, 2013 – Rietberg Museum, Zürich: February 26 / June 3, 2013
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011. Hardcover with black draped editor binding, dust jacket in good condition illustrated in color, in-4, size: 22.5 x 30 cm ISBN 978-0-300-17584 -4
Content:. 298 p, 4 ill. b / w, 139 ill. col., 65 b / w photos, 14 Color photos. 59 pl.coul., 1 drawings 2 shots, 7 maps, biblio., index,
Further information: Text in English
State of the work: Very good condition like new
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“Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, iconic sculptures” – Over the centuries, artists throughout sub-Saharan Africa have immortalized leading personalities in their societies using a surprisingly diverse repertoire of naturalistic and abstract sculptural idioms. Adopting complex cosmetic formulations, they idealized their subjects but also added specific details – such as rank emblems, scarification patterns and elaborate hairstyles – to evoke the people represented. Imbued with the essence of their formidable subjects, these works have played a vital role in the reification of relationships with important ancestors at critical times of transition. Often shifted from one generation to the next was a prerequisite to confer legitimacy to the leaders that followed. The arrival of Europeans as traders and then as colonizers, led to the collapse of many of these sculptures from their original sites and contexts in which they were designed; so that today they are considered primarily as timeless representations of generic archetypes. Heroic Africans reviewing sculptures based on the people that inspired them and the cultural values that informed, providing insight into the hidden meaning and inspiration behind these great artistic achievements. The author Alisa LaGamma considers the landmark sculptural traditions of the kingdoms of Ife and Benin, both in Nigeria; chiefdoms Akan of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire; chiefdoms Bangwa and Kom Grassfields of Cameroon; chiefdoms Chokwe of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and chiefdoms Luluwa, Kuba and Hemba DRC. More than 140 masterpieces created between the 12th and the early 20th century – complemented by maps, drawings, and excavation and ceremony photographs – reveal religious and aesthetic conventions that have defined genres separate regional.
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| Weight | 2010 g |
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| Dimensions | 22.5 × 30 cm |
