A companion volume to "Adornment", which was also based on a Barbier-Mueller collection, this work contains 295 colour photographs of the celebrated collection of primitive sculpture housed by the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva. The collection contains work from Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific, and includes almost every known genre: shields, masks, headpieces, drums, bronzes, ancestor images, and religious idols. The accompanying text analyzes and describes the objects, and discusses in more general terms the ...
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A companion volume to "Adornment", which was also based on a Barbier-Mueller collection, this work contains 295 colour photographs of the celebrated collection of primitive sculpture housed by the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva. The collection contains work from Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific, and includes almost every known genre: shields, masks, headpieces, drums, bronzes, ancestor images, and religious idols. The accompanying text analyzes and describes the objects, and discusses in more general terms the practice of sculpture throughout history.
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Add this copy of Tribal Sculpture, Masterpieces From Africa, South East to cart. $72.44, new condition, Sold by Colin Martin Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Camerton, EAST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1995 by Thames and Hudson.
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New in New jacket. Qto Cloth bound hardcovers, with 295 colour illustrations. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. As NEW. Unused. In the shrnk wrap as issued.
Add this copy of Tribal Sculpture: Masterpieces From Africa, South East to cart. $131.25, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Thames & Hudson.
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VG, dj shows some signs of wear, end-page creased, all materials and pages within in excellent condition. Color illustrated dustjacket, red cloth-bound boards with silver embossed illustration on cover. (9) 10-346 pp. Contains 295 full color illustrations. The Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva houses the most spectacular collection of tribal sculpture in the world. It comes from Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific and includes almost every known genre: shields, masks, headpieces, drums, bronzes, ancestor images, and religious idols. They were used in the rituals of worship, in initiation rites or merely in festivity. Together they provide an insight available in no other way into the cultures of these areas before contamination by the West.
Add this copy of Tribal Sculpture: Masterpieces From Africa, South-East to cart. $240.20, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Thames and Hudson Ltd.
