Peter Garlake (Independent scholar )

Broschiertes Buch

Early Art and Architecture of Africa

Beschreibung

This new history of over 5000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Peter Garlake uses the latest research and archaeological findings to offer exciting new insights.

Autor

Peter Garlake was Inspector of Monuments, Rhodesia, 1964-70; Senior Research Fellow, University of Ife, Nigeria, 1971-3; Nuffield Research Student, British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1962-4; and Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University College London, 1976-81. He has done archaeological fieldwork in Rhodesia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, and Somali coasts, Qatar. He has spent the last ten years doing research on the rock art of Zimbabwe.

Produktdetails

• Oxford History of Art
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 168mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780192842619
• ISBN-10: 0192842617
• Artikelnr.: 21406107