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Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture

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Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture - Lagamma, Alisa
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Idealized pairings have been an enduring concern of sculptors across the African continent. This universal theme of duality is now examined in a handsome book that presents African sculptural masterpieces created in wood, bronze, terracotta, and beadwork from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Drawn from thirty sub-Saharan African cultures, including those of the Dogon, Lobi, Baule, Senufo, Yoruba, Chamba, Jukun, Songye, and Sakalava, the sculptures tell much about each culture's beliefs and social ideals. These ...

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Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture 2004, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780300103588

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