Name/Title
Africa : arts and culturesEntry/Object ID
N7380.A34Description
There are countless ways of looking at African art -- in terms of ethnography, aesthetics, history, and the many ways these combine with personal knowledge and preference to influence the viewer. In Africa: Arts and Cultures the world-famous African art collection of the British Museum provides an exceptional opportunity to explore our contemporary knowledge of African objects and the cultures that created them. The rare pan-African scope of the book allows objects from each of the five regions of Africa to come to light. Many readers familiar with the masks and wooden figures commonly collected a century ago will be surprised also to see the Tunisian wedding tunic included here, or a water bottle of ostrich eggshell from the San in southern Africa, or a multimedia monoprint made by a Nigerian artist in 1999.Context
The occasion for the publication of this book is the opening of the Sainsbury African Galleries, part of the Great Court scheme, at the British Museum.Lexicon
Search Terms
art--africa, material culture--africa, museum catalogsBook Details
Author
John Mack, British MuseumPublisher
Oxford UniversityDate Published
2000Call No.
N7380.A34ISBN
195217276, 9780195217278Notes
Length: 224General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
North, North-east Africa and the Sahara / Christopher Spring, Julie Hudson --
West Africa / Nigel Barley --
Central Africa / John Mack --
East and Southern Africa / John Mack.