In 2005, the Walt Disney Company donated its Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art. One of the world's finest collections of African art, it contains iconic pieces dating from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries and represents seventy-five peoples and twenty countries. This book explores the many ways that the collection reflects Africa's rich history and culture. Figures carved in stone, wood, and ivory; stools, masks, crowns, jewellery, and hunting tools - each object is presented in vivid colour plates and accompanied by texts providing information about the objects' history, uses, and materials. This beautiful book accompanies the first public presentation of the collection in the past twenty years.
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Christine Mullen Kreamer is a Curator at the National Museum of African Art. Bryna Freyer is Curator for Collections at the National Museum of African Art. Andrea Nicolls is curatorial liaison for loan at the National Museum of African Art. Martin Sklar is Vice Chairman Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering.
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A Masterpiece of African Art Books,
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This review is from: African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection (Hardcover)
Wow. What a triumph. I saw this show at the Smithsonian, and bought the book in the giftshop. Once I had time to read this book, I realized that I had only really understood about 10% of the show. So I went back to the exhibit and with this catalogue in hand, really gained a true insight into the show.
The writing is clear (at least for this layman) and the pictures are sharp and show great detail. I first picked up one of Kreamer's books after seeing a show on Art of the Sub-Saharian region at the High Museum in Atlanta some 20 years ago, and have made a point of seeing her shows and the accompanying books. Well worth your time!
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This is a must have for anyone interested in African art. Informative of the pieces and people who make them.
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