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Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures /

Over the centuries, artists across sub-Saharan Africa have memorialized eminent figures in their societies using an astonishingly diverse repertoire of naturalistic and abstract sculptural idioms. Adopting complex aesthetic fromulations, they idealized their subjects but also added specific details-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: LaGamma, Alisa
Corporate Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Museum Rietberg
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; 2011.
Subjects:
Figure sculpture, African > Exhibitions.
Portrait sculpture, African > Exhibitions.
Sculpture > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions.
Art and society > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions.
Ausstellung > New York (State) > New York > 2011.
Ausstellung > NewYork > 2011.
Held (Motiv)
Häuptling (Motiv)
Plastik.
Subsaharisches Afrika.

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