The Language of Beauty in African Art

Displacing Western values in scholarship and museum interpretation over the past century through an exploration of traditional African artworks and aesthetic vocabularies

This ambitious publication centers indigenous perspectives on traditional artworks from Africa by focusing on the judgments and vocabularies of members of the communities who created and used them. It explores cross-cultural affinities spanning the African continent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300260040
• ISBN13: 9780300260045
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.3" x 13.0"