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African dream machines : style, identity and meaning of African headrests
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ISBN: 9781868144587 1868144585 9781868147083 1868147088 Year: 2007 Publisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press

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African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of 'art' objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of style and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. Among the artefacts made by southern African peoples, headrests were the best known. Anitra Nettleton's study of the uses and forms of headrests opened up a number of arthistorical methodologies in the attempt to gain an understanding of form, style and content in African art objects. Her drawings of each and every headrest encountered become a major part of the project.

Drums : the heartbeat of Africa.
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ISBN: 0969308191 Year: 1993 Publisher: Montréal Galerie Amrad African Arts

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Alte geschnitzte Bauernmöbel
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ISBN: 3766703072 Year: 1974 Publisher: München Callwey


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Massim : art of the Massim area, New Guinea.
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ISBN: 0912294442 Year: 1975 Publisher: New York Museum of Primitive art


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Mittelalterliche Holzskulpturen und Altarschreine in Schweden : Studien zu Form, Material und Technik.
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ISBN: 917402177X Year: 1986 Publisher: Stockholm Kungl. vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien

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The carver's art : crafting meaning from wood
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ISBN: 0813147867 9780813147864 0813108632 9780813108636 081318729X Year: 1996 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside -- all ""made with just a pocketknife"" -- are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what is their history? what do they mean for their makers, for their viewers, for our society? Simon J. Bronner portrays four wood carvers in southern Indiana, men who had been transplanted from the rural landscapes of their youth to industrial towns. After retiring, they took up a skill they remembered from childhood. Bronner discusses how creativity helped these men adjust to change and how vie


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Sculpter des grandes baleines : guide de sculpture sur bois
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ISBN: 2895443289 1435698754 9781435698758 Year: 2007 Publisher: Québec City : Éditions MultiMondes,

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Choir stalls and their workshops : proceedings of the Misericordia International Colloquium 2016
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ISBN: 152750428X 9781527504288 9781527504288 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Temas profanos en la escultura gotica espanola : las sillerias de Coro
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ISBN: 8400043987 Year: 1979


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