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Softback
244pp

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164 full-page plates (85 % entirely new, never before reproduced!), have been brought together in this remarkably inexpensive, authoritative and comprehensive collection. ladislas Segy, world famous expert on modern and African art, has produced a magnificent group of photographs which capture all the plastic quality of the original sculptures.
A wealth of material is illustrated, in wood and metal, showing typical productions of 50 art-producing tribes of West and Central Africa. Works of the Ashanti (Gold Coast), Bakongo and Bateke (Belgium Congo), Yoruba (Nigeria), Sherbro (Sierra leone) and dozens of other tribes are strikingly represented. Each piece of sculpture has been selected for its importance in the life of the tribe, and for its intrinsic plastic quality.
In a 34-page introduction Dr. Segy presents a straight-forward, simple analysis of African sculpture,
with frequent reference to material from anthropology, history of religion, and psychology. He shows the role of content and the expression of that content in African sculpture, and also examines similar forces at work in modern western man, enabling him to orient himself to the experience of appreciating African sculpture.