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载体形态

255 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 31 cm

附注

An exhibtion catalog organized and presented by the Museum for African Art, New York.

书目

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-251) and index.

内容

Secrecy and society : the paradox of knowing and the knowing of paradox / T.O. Beidelman -- Insight, or not seeing is believing / Allen F. Roberts -- Through the cosmic flower : secret resistance in the mural art of Sotho-Tswana women / Gary van Wyk -- Agbaa : Dangme art and the politics of secrecy / Nii Otokunor Quarcoopome -- The leopard who sleeps in a basket : Akuapem secrecy in

everyday life and in royal metaphor / Michelle Gilbert -- Eastern Pende constructions of secrecy / Z.S. Strother -- Art and secret agency : concealment and revelation in artistic expression / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Sigma! : the pilgrim's progress and the logic of secrecy / Cesare Poppi -- Secrecy and objectivity in the methodology and literature of Ifá divination / 'Wande Abimbola

and Barry Hallen -- Seduction, surrender, and portable paradise : Dogon art in modern Mali / Rachel Hoffman.

主题

Art, Black -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions.

Symbolism in art -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions.

Secret societies -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Influence -- Exhibitions.

索引项

Arts

Africa

其它责任者

Roberts, Mary Nooter.

Abimbọla, 'Wándé.

Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)

附加题名

African art that conceals and reveals.

国际标准书号

3791312308 cloth $70.00 (est.)

0945802129 paperback $40.00 (est.)