Автор: Dennis Duerden
Название: African Art (The Colour Library of Art)
Издательство: Paul Hamlyn
Год: 1968
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 94
Язык: English
Размер: 10 MB

Genuine African art comes almost exclusively from south of the Sahara Desert. Most people of the west have seen it only in museums or photographs. But for the makers of the artefacts, their meaning lies in the part they play in the ceremonies for which they are created and in which they are related to the kindred arts of music, dancing and poetry. In a museum these wonderful creations are seen in an alien environment so it is hardly surprising that there are profound differences between the African and the western approaches towards them.