Designs for Living, Symbolic Communications in African Art
Cambridge, MA: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, in cooperation with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1982. Softcover. Square quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 143 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. VG-. Some rubbing and wear around the edges of wraps. Previous owners embossed stamp inside otherwise unmarked. Item #212753
Map -- Art and the cosmos -- The divine geometry -- The spiral and the checkerboard -- Art and the community -- Founders and protectors of the community -- Prosperity and well-being -- A design for gender -- Task forces for the community -- Money and costume -- Art and the individual -- Cult art for the individual -- Small figure sculpture -- Signs of one's calling -- Designs on prestige -- Endgame -- The powerful outside: motifs adopted into art forms from foreign people viewed as powerful -- Design for beauty's sake.
OCLC: 39007252
Price: $30.00