The Tribal Arts of Africa

By Jean-Baptiste Bacquart

Book Overview

The marvelous achievements of black African artists over thousands of years are revealed and superbly portrayed in this book. The earliest pieces date from the beginning of the first millennium, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500018707
• ISBN13: 9780500018705
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Tribal Arts of Africa

Excellent Book!!! Layed out perfectly to help people understand each & every aspect of tribal art. Describes museum pieces in detail, where they were from, why they were made. Excellent book for beginners or advanced. Well written book. I highly recomend if your studing African art or if it is just a hobbie. Knowledge is power.

An encyclopaedic work

This beautiful book on the art of Africa south of the Sahara explores 49 cultural areas as regards their artistic production and their political and social structures. The 49 areas are broadly divided under sections for the coast of West Africa; inland West Africa; Nigeria and Cameroon; Gabon and Zaire; and Eastern and Southern Africa.Each section has its own bibliography. The book includes 865 illustrations of which a least 195 are full color photographs. There are also many maps of the areas under study. The reference section at the end encompasses a further bibliography, lists of major museums and major dealers in African art, a glossary and an index.The book is a masterpiece that makes accessible the entire panoply of black African tribal arts from the first millennium to the end of the nineteenth century. It is an indispensable reference source for the serious collector and a beautiful encyclopaedia for any art lover.

Hooray!

Probably the best book currently available on African art. Everything else of value is either out of print or in French. Brilliant photographs, excellent text, authoritative background on the sources and location without a plethora of anthropological subtext, as so often happens in books on African art. If the subject interests you, you'll find nothing better!