AFRICA AND THE RENAISSANCE, ART IN IVORY
New York: Center for African Art, 1988. 256 pages, small folio size (9"x 12 1/2"), 103 color and 399 b/w photographs--including all known Afro-Portugese ivories, 15 drawings. Soft cover. More
New York: Center for African Art, 1988. 256 pages, small folio size (9"x 12 1/2"), 103 color and 399 b/w photographs--including all known Afro-Portugese ivories, 15 drawings. Soft cover. More
1976. Pp. 79-156, 47 photographs, 10 drawings. New, unopened copy. More
London: 1959. 114 pages, 46 photographs--almost all full-page. Cloth cover. Wonderful photographs and a typically splendid (though brief) text by William Fagg illuminate this study of the British Museum collection--probably the world's largest--of Afro-Portugese ivories. The four major groups--pedestal cups, hunting horns, spoons and forks, and miscellaneous objects--are stunningly illustrated..... More
Prague: 1959. Cloth cover. This is the German language edition of AFRO-PORTUGESE IVORIES. More
Meerbusch: 1988. 16 pages, 15 photographs of magnificently carved ivory horns. More
London: the British Museum, 1899. 136 pages, 185 photographs and 27 drawings. Hard board and cloth cover, folio size (14 3/4" x 19" 5/8). This extraordinary document, a scholarly and sumptuous volume, was first published in 1899 when the British were displaying the fruits of their punitive expedition. There is..... More
Los Angeles: Fowler Museum, 1992. xxiv, 423 pages, approximately 260 color and 235 b/w photographs, 18 drawings, 7 maps. Cloth cover. An important work, richly presented and dealing with a topic not heavily represented in the literature of African art, this impressive volume explores the depiction of the elephant and..... More
New York: 1980. 176 pages, 123 b/w photographs, 53 color photographs--almost all full-page. The traditional art of Nigeria--in bronze, terracotta, and ivory--spanning over 2,000 years and representing seven cultures, visited three major U.S. museums in 1980 and 1981. This stunning volume--with a text by two leading authorities on Nigerian art--lavishly..... More