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Prestom Blier Suzanne

Royal arts of Africa. The majesty of form

Laurence King, 1998

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Year of publication
1998
ISBN
1856691136
Place of printing
Londra
Author
Prestom Blier Suzanne
Publishers
Laurence King
Binding description
Brossura
Languages
Italian
Binding
Softcover

Description

cm 17x23 pag. 272 ill. 200 a colori Explores the diverse ways in which African rulers have used art and architecture to define individual and state identity from the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The art of selected kingdoms from West and Central Africa are illustrated with nineteenth_century engravings, contemporary photographs of rulers and their retinue, colour photographs of objects in situ and in museums, and explanatory drawings