Author : Alisa LaGamma,John Pemberton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art, Black
ISBN : 9780870999338
Art and Oracle by Alisa LaGamma,John Pemberton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf
Twenty-eight African cultures are represented here by artifacts created to communicate with ancestors, spirits, and gods, about such issues as health, conception, and determination of guilt or innocence. Issued in conjunction with an April-July 2000 exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, this catalog contains extensive ethnographic, descriptive, and interpretive text in connection with each of 50 pictured pieces, as well as a 13-page essay about divination in Sub-Saharan Africa (by John Pemberton III) and an introductory essay by LaGamma. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR