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189 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, portraits ; 27 cm
"This book is put together like a jewel and contains a carefully chosen selection of around one hundred West African combs from one of the world's largest and finest private collections of sub-Saharan African art. Featuring a hitherto unseen assortment of pieces assembled over a period of more than sixty years, the book also includes an authoritative analysis by Alain-Michel Boyer, who approached this rarely addressed theme in what was his final work, begun almost ten years ago. As well as offering us valuable insights into the cultures that produced these miniature sculptures (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria), he explores the way the form itself is approached. These creations transform what is in principle a plain accessory and in the effort to attain pure beauty, they display an aesthetic awareness that raises the adornment of the body to the level of fine art"--
Introduction. From ordinary combs to the ornamental combs of West Africa / Valentine Plisnier and Najwa Borro -- Hair ornaments : exalted presences / Alain-Michel Boyer -- West African combs -- The iconography of the comb as a social marker : a Baule music hammer / Sarah Boukamel and Najwa Borro -- Celebrating approval : a Guro mask / Sarah Boukamel and Najwa Borro.
edited by Najwa Borro, Sarah Boukamel, Faouzi Borro et Valentine Plisnier ; with an essays by Alain-Michel Boyer.