Tabwa: The Rising of a New Moon, a Century of Tabwa Art

Tabwa: The Rising of a New Moon, a Century of Tabwa Art.

Maurer, Evan M.; Roberts, Allen F.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1985. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Brown wraps with black titles and embossed pattern. xvi, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. VG. Light wear around edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Item #212787

"National Museum of African art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., January-March 1986, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April-August 1986, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, September-October 1986."/ Includes catalogue raisonné of Tabwa art./ Includes bibliographical references (page 285) and index Foreword -- Preface / by Luc du Heusch -- Acknowledgements -- Lenders to the exhibition -- "Social and historical context of Tabwa art" / by Allen F. Roberts -- Maps -- Color plates -- "Tabwa sculpture and the great traditions of east central Africa" / by François Neyt, o.s.b translated by Samuel G. Ferraro -- "A note on 'prime objects' and variation in Tabwa figural sculpture" / by Bernard de Grunne -- Catalogue of the exhibition / by Evan M. Maurer and Allen F. Roberts -- A catalogue raisonné of Tabwa art / by Evan M. Maurer -- Glossary / by Allen F. Roberts -- Additional reading.