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Constantine Petridis (Editor)

The Language of Beauty in African Art

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Constantine Petridis (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22975

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The Africa Center, New York

The Art Institute of Chicago

Brooklyn Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art

Detroit Institute of Arts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

MAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp

The Menil Collection, Houston

Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva

Museum Rietberg, Zurich

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington

Laura and John Arnold

Anna Bennett

Jan Calmeyn

Olivier Castellano

Annick Cerulus and Marcel Nies

Brigitte and Michel Chambaud

Pierre Dartevelle

Bernard de Grunne

Dierk Dierking

Nicole and John Dintenfass

Martin Doustar

Rachelle Dwaihy and Steven Morris

Barbara and Eberhard Fischer

Alexia and Alain Freilich

Nathalie and Jacques Germain

Colette and Jean-Pierre Ghysels

Laurence Girard

Deborah Glasser

Allan Green

Toby and Barry Hecht

James Tomilson Hill III

Wally and Udo Horstmann

Lee Hudson and Joe Hudson

Max Itzikovitz

Katherine and Robert Jacobs

The Kronos Collections

Johann Levy

Nancy Lockhart

Marian Malcolm

Paula and Herbert R. Molner

Javier Peres and Benoît Wolfrom

Alain Pierre-Kahn

Garance Primat

Laura and James J. Ross

Nicolas Saglio

Richard H. Scheller

Heinrich Schweizer

Nina and Henricus Simonis

Joanna Teunen and Lucien Van de Velde

Anne and Michel Vandenkerckhove

Edith and Willem Vranken-Hoet

Robert T. Wall

Josette and Jean-Claude Weill

And private collectors who wish to remain anonymous

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BOOKThe Language of Beauty in African Art

Constantine Petridis (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00326

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22970

This ambitious publication centers indigenous perspectives on traditional artworks from Africa by focusing on the judgments and vocabularies of members of the communities who created and used them. It explores cross-cultural affinities spanning the African continent while respecting local contexts; it also documents an exhibition that is extraordinary in scope and scale. The project’s overriding goal is to reconsider Western evaluations of these arts in both aesthetic and financial terms. The volume features nearly 300 works from collections around the world and from the important holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago. Although it emphasizes the sculptural legacy of sub-Saharan cultures from West and Central Africa, it also includes examples of artistic traditions associated with eastern and southern Africa as well as textiles and objects designed for domestic, ritual, and decorative functions.

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Constantine Petridis (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Print publication date April 2022 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300260045

EISBN 9780300269918

Illustrations 345

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