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Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures
- Title
- Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures / Alisa LaGamma.
- Author
- LaGamma, Alisa.
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : distributed by Yale University Press, 2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 298 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 31 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zürich, at later dates.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Visual poems in praise of an ever-present past: Ife terracottas -- Pageantry and ritual: the Akan -- Dancing figures and effigy thrones: Grassfield chiefdoms -- The golden age of Shyáám and beyond: the Kuba -- Of hunter princes and cherished maidens: the Chokwe and Luluwa -- Sublime chiefs and the persistence of memory: the Hemba.
- Call Number
- Sc+ F12-189
- ISBN
- 9781588394323 (hc: the metropolitan museum of art)
- 1588394328 (hc: the metropolitan museum of art)
- 9780300175844 (hc: yale university press)
- 0300175841 (hc: yale university press)
- LCCN
- 2011029005
- OCLC
- 711045520
- Author
- LaGamma, Alisa.
- Title
- Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures / Alisa LaGamma.
- Imprint
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : distributed by Yale University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Museum Rietberg.
- Research Call Number
- Sc+ F12-189