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The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southeast Africa

English

By (author): Constantine Petridis Karel Nel

Front cover image The Art of Daily Life Portable Objects from Southeast Africa Constantine Petridis, with an essay by Karel Nel In stock 9788874395781 Paperback with flaps 5 Continents Editions Territory: World excluding Italy Size: 285 mm x 240 mm Pages: 112 Illustrations: 150 colour RRP £20.00 Features 78 exceptional works - many never published before - drawn from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., and a large number of American private collections The arts of southeast Africa embrace astounding diversity and limitless inventiveness in materials, forms, and styles. Small and portable in nature - snuff containers, pipes, headrests, staffs, clubs, beer vessels, beaded garments - they were created by semi-nomadic pastoral peoples and primarly intended for daily use. Whether figurative or abstract, carved out of wood, ivory, or horn, or made of cloth, glass beads, or clay, most of these works were much more than exquisitely designed functional objects. Some signalled status, gender, or age; others served as symbolic intermediaries between the world of humans and the realm of the ancestors. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 240 x 285mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2011
  • Publisher: Five Continents Editions
  • Publication City/Country: Italy
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9788874395781

About Constantine PetridisKarel Nel

After a tenure of more than fourteen years at the Cleveland Museum of Art Constantine (Costa) Petridis joined the Art Institute of Chicago on November 1 2016 as Curator of African art and Chair of the Department of the Arts of Africa and the Americas. A prolific editor and writer specialising in the arts of Central Africa Petridis most recently also contributed various essays to Frank Herreman's Mumuye Sculpture from Nigeria: The Human Figure Reinvented which was published by 5 Continents Editions in 2016.

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