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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Milan, Italy :
5 Continents Editions,
[2020]
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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.