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Art and power in the Central African savanna; Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa.

Petridis, Constantijn.

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Cleveland Museum of Art

2008

159 pages

$60.00

Hardcover

NB1255

This generously illustrated oversize (10x12") catalogue was published to accompany an eponymous exhibition organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and held in various venues during 2008-2009. Petridis, the Museum's African art curator, provides the text, describing and comparing the four cultures. The term fetish has Juicy Couture Bags Replica given way to the more respectful power object to refer to objects carved of wood, in human or animal shape, associated with religious beliefs and the mediation of spirit and human worlds. These objects are conventionally distinguished from art that serves political purposes, but Petridis argues that in Piaget Watches the meticulously made, relatively large-size figures presented here, the two purposes merged. Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press.

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