Featuring 250 illustrations, a detailed study of the sculpture of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast--long seen by Westerners as one of Africa's most important artistic traditions--explores the Baules' ways of expression and aesthetic understanding. UP.

Baule: African Art, Western Eyes

Arts & Photography

Vogel, Susan Mullin

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

For spirits and kings: African art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection

Thompson, Jerry L.

Sculpture

Distributed by H.N. Abrams

The sculptures of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast have long been recognized in Europe and the United States as one of Africa's most significant art traditions. The work of many modern artists - Amedeo Modigliani in particular - refelects the direct influence of Baule invention and forms. This text explores for the texture and details of Baule life and art. Illustrations include field photographs showing artworks in the intimacy of daily lives and public performances, and museum photograophs of Baule sculptures. Susan Vogel focuses on the creation and uses of Baule works of art apart from their definition as "art" in western eyes. She establishes a means for understanding Baule expressive culture from the perspective of the Baule individuals. In a discussion of Baule experiences of art objects, she finds different kinds of looking and sleeping - art that is watched (mask dances and entertainment performances), that is seen without looking (works of art too sacred or awesome to be sc

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Yale Univ Pr

The Aesthetics of African Art: The Carlo Monzino Collection

Museum for African Art

Book by Vogel, Susan Mullin, Carrieri, Mario, Center for African Art (New York, N. Y.)

African Aesthetics: The Carlo Monzino Collection

Carrieri, Mario

Center for African Art (New York, N. Y.)

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