| Description |
255 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 31 cm |
| Note |
An exhibtion catalog organized and presented by the Museum for African Art, New York. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-251) and index. |
| Contents |
Secrecy and society : the paradox of knowing and the knowing of paradox / T.O. Beidelman -- Insight, or not seeing is believing / Allen F. Roberts -- Through the cosmic flower : secret resistance in the mural art of Sotho-Tswana women / Gary van Wyk -- Agbaa : Dangme art and the politics of secrecy / Nii Otokunor Quarcoopome -- The leopard who sleeps in a basket : Akuapem secrecy in |
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everyday life and in royal metaphor / Michelle Gilbert -- Eastern Pende constructions of secrecy / Z.S. Strother -- Art and secret agency : concealment and revelation in artistic expression / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Sigma! : the pilgrim's progress and the logic of secrecy / Cesare Poppi -- Secrecy and objectivity in the methodology and literature of Ifá divination / 'Wande Abimbola |
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and Barry Hallen -- Seduction, surrender, and portable paradise : Dogon art in modern Mali / Rachel Hoffman. |
| Subject |
Art, Black -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions.
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Symbolism in art -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions.
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Secret societies -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Influence -- Exhibitions.
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| Indexed Term |
Arts |
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Africa |
| Added Author |
Roberts, Mary Nooter.
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Abimbọla, 'Wándé.
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Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| Added Title |
African art that conceals and reveals.
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| ISBN |
3791312308 cloth $70.00 (est.) |
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0945802129 paperback $40.00 (est.) |
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