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Author_Z. S. Strother
Carl Einstein
Carlos Fausto
case studies
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Chinua Achebe
Congo
cross cultural
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Dario Fo
Dogon
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ethnographic
expressive culture
gender
Georges Buraud
Germaine Dieterlen
Guy Le Moal
Halloween
Hans Belting
iconoclasm
interdisciplinary
Kinshasa
KKK
Leni Riefenstahl
Lisa Homann
Marcel Griaule
masquerade
Monni Adams
Nuay
Pende
performance
political control
Saint Nicholas
Sara Baartman
secret societies
theater
uncanny
Vladimir Markov
Product details
- ISBN 9781606069936
- Dimensions: 152 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In
Western European languages, the word mask exerts a powerful presence as a
figure of speech. To masquerade is to pretend to be someone or something one
is not. By extension, unmasking is
a heroic metaphor for exposing a hidden truth. In this volume, art historian
Z. S. Strother counters that narrative, using African case studies to offer
an alternative vision of masquerading. She explores the aesthetic emotions
aroused by masks, or more precisely, by "dances of masks": joy, wonder, awe,
fear, and the release of laughing out loud. She also investigates the
uncanny-a sensation of "delicious shiveriness" triggered when familiar spaces
and individuals become strange and changeable. Inspired by Strother's studies
in DR Congo, African Masks and Emotions takes a comparative perspective and moves emotion from the
periphery to the center of analysis.
Z. S. Strother is the Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University.
