- Many little-known objects are included alongside a generous sampling of the thousands of masks that are perhaps the quintessential forms of Igbo art, famous for its diversity, inventiveness, and aesthetic quality This wide-ranging survey of art made by the 15 to 20 million Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria focuses on the twentieth century but also takes a look at the extraordinary ninth and tenth-century BC cast copper alloy and ceramic finds that influenced Igbo artworks created twenty centuries later. Ceremonial ...
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- Many little-known objects are included alongside a generous sampling of the thousands of masks that are perhaps the quintessential forms of Igbo art, famous for its diversity, inventiveness, and aesthetic quality This wide-ranging survey of art made by the 15 to 20 million Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria focuses on the twentieth century but also takes a look at the extraordinary ninth and tenth-century BC cast copper alloy and ceramic finds that influenced Igbo artworks created twenty centuries later. Ceremonial contexts and meanings are explained, covering art associated with individuals as well as communal works and ranging from personal decoration to architectural forms, from household objects to cult sculpture, title regalia, and public shrines.
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