Henry John Drewal, Enid Schildkrout

Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dynast and Divinity presents anextraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists at Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa (located in present-day southwestern Nigeria), created sculpture that ranks among the most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated in the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 219mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 1052g
• ISBN-13: 9780945802532
• ISBN-10: 0945802536
• Artikelnr.: 28256818

Autorenporträt

Henry John Drewal is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and adjunct curator of African art at the University's Chazen Museum of Art. Enid Schildkrout is chief curator and director of exhibitions and publications at the Museum for African Art and curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History.