Art historian Z.S. Strother spent nearly three years in Zaire studying Pende sculpture. Her research reveals the rich history and lively contemporary practice of Central Pende masquerade. INVENTING MASKS demonstrates, through firsthand accounts and lavish illustrations, how Central Pende masquerading is a contemporary art form with the main focus of representing perceived differences between male and female. 8 color plates. 104 halftones.
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Art historian Z.S. Strother spent nearly three years in Zaire studying Pende sculpture. Her research reveals the rich history and lively contemporary practice of Central Pende masquerade. INVENTING MASKS demonstrates, through firsthand accounts and lavish illustrations, how Central Pende masquerading is a contemporary art form with the main focus of representing perceived differences between male and female. 8 color plates. 104 halftones.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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New/Sealed. Oblong, glued pictorial wraps. xxvii, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates. Who invents masks, and why? Such questions have rarely been asked, due to stereotypes of anonymous African artists locked into the reproduction of "traditional" models of representation. Rather than accept this view of African art as timeless and unchanging, Z. S. Strother spent nearly three years in Zaire studying Pende sculpture. Her research reveals the rich history and lively contemporary practice of Central Pende masquerade. She describes the intensive collaboration among sculptors and dancers that is crucial to inventing masks. Sculptors revealed that a central theme in their work is the representation of perceived differences between men and women. Far from being unchanging, Pende masquerades promote unceasing innovation within genres and invention of new genres. Inventing Masks demonstrates, through first hand accounts and lavish illustrations, how Central Pende masquerading is a contemporary art form fully responsive to twentieth-century experience. ---book jacket.
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Very Good. Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende. Oblong 8vo. xxviii, 348 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Illustrations throughout, some in full color. Includes bibliography and index. Very Good, minor and shelf wear to wrappers, hard bump to tail of spine resulting in horizontal closed tear, soft bend to lower corner of rear cover and final page of text, internally clean and bright. Excellent copy.
