Inventing Masks: Agency And History In The Art Of The Central Pende
Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Hardcover. oblong, glued pictorial wraps. xxvii, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates. Who invents masks, and why? Such questions have rarely been asked, due to stereotypes of anonymous African artists locked into the reproduction of "traditional" models of representation. Rather than accept..... More