Research Catalog

Title

A sense of wonder : African art from the Faletti family collection / Mary Nooter Roberts, Allen F. Roberts.

Author

Roberts, Mary Nooter.

Publication

Phoenix, AZ : Phoenix Art Museum, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roberts, Allen F., 1945-
• Phoenix Art Museum

Description

144 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Subject

• Faletti, Richard > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Bauhaus Dessau 1986-1994 Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen
• Decorative arts, Black > Africa, West > Exhibitions
• Art, Ethiopian > Exhibitions
• Decorative arts > Private collections > United States > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Phoenix Art Museum, Dec. 13, 1997-Feb. 8, 1998 and at four others through May 7, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-143).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: A Fellowship with Objects -- Things that "Exact Presence" -- Collecting the Self -- The Fantastic in African Art. Defining the Fantastic. The Fantastic Hesitation. Ritual Realization of the Fantastic. Looking Both Ways. Once More, Into the Breach. A Capacity to Move Audiences. The "Face" of the Fantastic -- The Sublime in African Art. Deep Waters, Sublime Mysteries. "Secrets, Shaped in Silence" Sublime Being in Central Africa. The Sublime in African Christian Art -- Catalog.

ISBN

0910407339 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97018380^

OCLC

• 37353695
• SCSB-10182632

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library