Zimbabwe : art, symbol and meaning /

This book is an in-depth look at the historical art of the three cultures of Zimbabwe: the Shona, Ndebele, and Tonga. It traces how art, in a historical African context, is never separated from life, but remains an existential tool of meaning embedded in daily life itself. Consequently, art is found...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atherstone, Gill (Author)
Other Authors: Wylie, Duncan, 1975- (Photographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milan, Italy : 5 Continents Editions, [2020]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Portrait of a people, through a legacy of art
  • The aesthetic code and the dialectic of symbolism
  • Art as a code of meaning
  • Who is the self?
  • The law of relationship
  • Redefining religion
  • From mechanistic to aesthetic thinking
  • The place of our being
  • The spirit medium
  • Symbol of the staff
  • Symbolic weapons
  • Technologies of the sacred
  • Great Zimbabwe
  • Shrines of the Matobo Hills
  • The contemporary art of Zimbabwe
  • the contribution to come, from Africa.