MUMUYE
Author: F. NEYT
Material Type: Exhibition Catalogue. Flak Gallery, Paris: June 15 to September 30, 2006
Publisher: Galerie Flak, Paris, 2006. Hardcover editor boards illustrated in color Very good condition, size: 22 x 25 cm, ISBN 2-912646-14-6
Content: 180 p, 6 ill.. b / w, 160 ill. col., col 16 photos. 25 pl.coul. 8 drawings, 1 shots, 2 maps, biblio., 1 table, sketches, sculptures catalog notes
Additional information: bilingual text in French and English.
State of the work: Very good condition
Description
The “Mumuye” Masters of rain and fire. The late discovery in the late 1960s, the statuary of Mumuye capita in the North East of Nigeria was a shock. Suddenly appeared in Western public eye an art of modernity and a fascinating inventiveness. These great dancing figures carved out of dense and dark wood actually have unique characteristics in their stylization and thus reveal the amazing traditions carved Mumuye specific archetype of a conception of man in the cultural history of Africa and humanity in these major works. This art recalling certain aspects of Cubism and the work of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century such as Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti occupied a prominent place in the founding exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1984: “Primitivism Art in the Twentieth Century. “
Additional information
| Weight | 1050 g |
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| Dimensions | 22 × 25 cm |
