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African seats

Title
African seats / edited by Sandro Bocola ; with essays by Ezio Bassani [and others].
Publication
Munich : Prestel, 1995.

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  • Bocola, Sandro, 1931-
  • Bassani, Ezio.
Description
200 pages; 31 cm
Summary
  • African seats have exceptional sculptural power; and they range from items incorporating carved figures to extraordinarily abstract forms of a minimalism astonishing even by Western standards. No other non-European culture can lay claim to such a variety of seats.
  • Alongside a multitude of stools and backrests for everyday use and unique to a particular group, one finds ritual seats decorated with symbolic representations, ceremonial stools and the partly European-inspired chairs of the heads of families, tribal princes and kings.
  • Drawing on over 170 examples, this book offers a survey of the seats of sub-Saharan Africa, an integral part of a traditional culture that is already disappearing. The various essays by noted ethnologists address the cultural histories and aesthetics of African seats and other objects, as well as their regional characteristics. In addition, there is a wealth of photographic evidence documenting the use of seats and their original contexts, both past and present.
Subject
  • Seating (Furniture) > Africa > History > Pictorial works
  • Chairs > Africa > History > Pictorial works
  • Stools > Africa > History > Pictorial works
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 196-199.
Contents
Introduction / Sandro Bocola -- Through Western Eyes / Sandro Bocola -- Concerning African Objects / Lorenz Homberger and Piet Meyer -- African Furniture between Tradition and Colonization / Roy Sieber -- Early Evidence of African Seats / Ezio Bassani -- The Small Grandfather Chairs of the Gere / Hans Himmelheber -- Asante Stools -- Maps of Africa -- Plates with introductory texts / Lorenz Homberger. Sudanese Savannah and Coast of Guinea. Cameroon. Central Africa. East and Southern Africa -- Catalogue / Andrea Knecht Oti-Amoako.
ISBN
  • 3791314262
  • 379131386X (German ed)
  • 2711831094 (French ed)
LCCN
gb 96021788
OCLC
  • 35252681
  • ocm35252681
  • SCSB-14349774
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries