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Title African images; essays in African iconology. / Edited by Daniel F. McCall [and] Edna G. Bay.

Publication Info. New York : [Published by] Africana Pub. Co., for the African Studies Center, Boston University, [1975]

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 Moore Stacks  DT1 .B6 vol.6    Available  ---
Description xiii, 326 pages, 64 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Boston University papers on Africa ; v. 6
Boston University papers on Africa ; 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: Art, history, and art history / Daniel F. McCall -- pt. 1. On the meaning of African sculpture: Lugard Lecture of 1961 / Vinigi L. Grottanelli -- pt. 2. Studies of art in a local context: Benin bronze heads: styles and chronology / Philip J.C. Dark -- History if Ibo Mbari houses: facts and theories / Herbert M. Cole -- Images of aggression: Ivwri sculpture of the Urhobo / W. Perkins Foss -- Masking tradition and figurative art among the Islamized Mande / René Bravmann -- Professionals and amateurs in Benin court carving / Paula Ben-Amos -- House decoration in Lower Nubia / Terence Walz -- pt. 3. Distribution of forms and symbols: Yoruba-Sango ram symbolism: from ancient Sahara or dynastic Egypt? / Babatunde Lawal -- Heart-shaped face in African art / Edna G. Bay -- Hornbill and analogous forms in West African sculpture / Daniel F. McCall.
Form Also issued online.
Subject Art, West African.
Art, West African.
Added Author McCall, Daniel F.
Bay, Edna G.
Boston University. African Studies Center.
Other Form: Online version: African images. New York, [Published by] Africana Pub. Co., for the African Studies Center, Boston University 1975] (OCoLC)643598413
ISBN 0841901473
9780841901476