African Art in Detail

by Christopher Spring and SPRING CHRIS

This book opens with the question, What is African art? The answer is a brilliantly colorful and detailed look at the myriad materials and genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts and expressions that comprise artistic traditions across this vast and varied continent. Viewing artworks in their contexts--ancient and modern, urban and rural, western and eastern, decorative and functional--the book is nothing less than a virtual tour of African...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674036220
• ISBN13: 9780674036222
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 8.7"