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Visions from the forests : the art of Liberia and Sierra Leone
- Title
- Visions from the forests : the art of Liberia and Sierra Leone / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot, general editors ; essays by Mariane C. Ferme and Paul Richards [and six others] ; catalogue by Alexander Bortolot, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Natasha Thoreson.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : Minneapolis Institute of Arts ; Seattle : Distributed by the University of Washington Press, [2014]
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- Description
- 239 pages : illustrations (some color), color map; 28 cm
- Alternative Title
- Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone
- Subject
- Siegmann, William > Art collections > Exhibitions
- Siegmann, William > Ethnological collections > Exhibitions
- Art, Liberian > Exhibitions
- Art, Sierra Leonean > Exhibitions
- Art objects > Liberia > Exhibitions
- Art objects > Sierra Leone > Exhibitions
- Forest people > Liberia > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
- Forest people > Sierra Leone > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
- Forest people > Liberia > Social life and customs > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
- Forest people > Sierra Leone > Social life and customs > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
- Photography in ethnology > Liberia > Exhibitions
- Photography in ethnology > Sierra Leone > Exhibitions
- Liberia > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
- Sierra Leone > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
- Liberia > Social life and customs > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
- Sierra Leone > Social life and customs > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
- Note
- Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of the same name organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. (Colophon)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-232) and index.
- Contents
- Remembering Bill Siegmann / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- Forests in the imagination of the Upper Guinea coast / Mariane C. Ferme and Paul Richards -- Extending the stage : photography and Sande intitiates in the early twentieth century / Nanina Guyer -- "By their fruits you will know them" : Sande mask carvers identified / Frederick John Lamp -- Spirits from the forest : Dan masks in performance and everyday life / Daniel B. Reed -- Brass casting in Liberia / Barbara C. Johnson -- Ritual recycling : modern uses of ancient stone sculptiures in the Upper Guinea forest region / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- William Siegmann, advocate for connoisseurship / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Catalogue of objects / Alexander Bortolot, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, and Natasha Thoreson -- Appendix : A historiography of the term nòwo / Frederick John Lamp.
- Call Number
- Sc F 14-403
- ISBN
- 0989371816
- 9780989371810
- OCLC
- 862347679
- Title
- Visions from the forests : the art of Liberia and Sierra Leone / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot, general editors ; essays by Mariane C. Ferme and Paul Richards [and six others] ; catalogue by Alexander Bortolot, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Natasha Thoreson.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, MN : Minneapolis Institute of Arts ; Seattle : Distributed by the University of Washington Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-232) and index.
- Added Author
- Grootaers, J.-L. (Jan-Lodewijk)Bortolot, Alexander Ives.Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 14-403