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Author LaGamma, Alisa, author.

Title Kongo : power and majesty / Alisa Lagamma ; with contributions by Josiah Blackmore, Christine Giuntini, James Green, Ellen G. Howe, Phyllis M. Martin, Adriana Rizzo, John K. Thornton, and Kristen Windmuller-Luna.

Publication Info. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2015]
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [date of distribution not identified]
©2015

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  709.6 LAGAMMA    Check Shelf
Description 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm
Note Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 18, 2015-January 3, 2016.
"A landmark presentation that will radically redefine our understanding of Africa's relationship with the West, Kongo: Power and Majesty, opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this September, will focus on one of the continent's most influential artistic traditions, from the earliest moment of direct engagement between African and European leaders at the end of the 15th century through the early 20th century. The creative output of Kongo artists of Central Africa will be represented by 134 works drawn from more than 50 institutional and private collections across Europe and the United States, reflecting five hundred years of encounters and shifting relations between European and Kongo leaders. From a dynamic assembly of 15 monumental power figures to elegantly carved ivories and finely woven textiles, the exhibition will explore how the talents of Central Africa's most gifted artists were directed toward articulating a culturally distinct vernacular of power."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.
Contents Map of Africa -- Chronology of kingship -- Kongo : power and majesty / Alisa LaGamma -- The Kingdom of Loango / Phyllis M. Martin -- The Kingdom of Kongo / John K. Thornton -- European images of the Kongolese in books / Josiah Blackmore -- Out of Kongo and into the Kunstkammer / Alisa LaGamma -- Kongo female power / Alisa LaGamma -- Mangaaka / Alisa LaGamma.
Subject Art, Kongo -- Exhibitions.
Art, Kongo -- Influence -- Exhibitions.
Art, Kongo -- European influences -- Exhibitions.
Art -- Kongo Kingdom -- Exhibitions.
Art -- Africa, Central -- Exhibitions.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Blackmore, Josiah, 1959- European images of the Kongolese in books.
Giuntini, Christine, contributor.
Green, James, 1987- contributor.
Howe, Ellen G., contributor.
Martin, Phyllis M. Kingdom of Loango.
Rizzo, Adriana, contributor.
Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949- Kingdom of Kongo.
Windmuller-Luna, Kristen, contributor.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
ISBN 1588395758 (hd.bd.)
9781588395757 (hd.bd.)
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