African textiles and decorative arts(1st Edition) by RoySieber Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 1972 by Museum Of Modern Art; Distributed By New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-227-3, ISBN: 0-87070-227-0
"CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 5 MAP OF AFRICA 8 AFRICAN TEXTILES AND DECORATIVE ARTS
by Roy Sieber NOTES 226 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY by Roslyn Walker Randall 229 ..."
African textiles and decorative arts(Illustrated) by RoySieber Hardcover, 239 Pages, Published 1972 by Museum Of Modern Art; Distributed By New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-228-0, ISBN: 0-87070-228-9
"A collection of articles on the exhibition African textiles and decorative arts and the accompanying book on the exhibition by Roy Sieber."
"African Masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts showcases eighty-eight of the museum's finest works, representing the full range of major sub-Saharan sculptural traditions during the past three centuries: figures, masks, containers, carved stools, jewelry, and musical instruments. As noted in the introductory material, almost all African art has a functional base - each sculpture's primary justification is its effectiveness as a ri ..."
"The rich holdings of African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian art in the Indiana University Art Museum constitute one of the finest collections of its kind in the United States. This catalog reproduces and describes in detail more than 160 selected examples of the traditional arts of these diverse cultures. Three of the world's leading specialists have contributed substantial essays on the stylistic, cultural, and historical characteristics ..."
"Contributions by:
Dave Hickey,
Robert Williams,
Roy Sieber,
Sid Sheinberg,
Roger Donaldson,
Don Was,
Lisa Eisner,
Glenn Schaeffer.
Starting in about 1985 and continuing until just before the millennium, there existed a Golden Age of hand-painted imagination-driven movie posters in Ghana that stood their ground against globalization and computer-generated images. This was a time when market forces from abroad were minimal and these uniq ..."
"In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale mobile film-distribution empires, advertising the films with rolled up, hand painted, artist signed canvas posters."
African Art at the Harn Museum(2nd Edition) Spirit Eyes, Human Hands by Robin Poynor, RoySieber Hardcover, 237 Pages, Published 1996 by University Press Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-1325-1, ISBN: 0-8130-1325-9
""Insightful and profound."--Arthur P. Bourgeois, Governors State University, University Park, Illinois"More than just another exhibition catalogue. . . . The conceptual framework and orientation of the essay are original. [Poynor suggests] the complexity of African religious beliefs and the diversity of roles art plays in their manifestation."--Barbara Frank, SUNY-Stony BrookWith dramatic color and black-and-white photographs of ninety- ..."
Vigango(1st Edition) The Commemorative Sculpture of the Mijikenda of Kenya by Ernie Wolfe Iii, David J. Parkin, RoySieber, Williams College Hardcover, 79 Pages, Published 1986 by Williams College Museum Of Art ISBN-13: 978-0-913697-02-3, ISBN: 0-913697-02-8
Vigango The Commemorative Sculpture of the Mijikenda of Kenya by RoySieber, David Parkin, Ernie Wolfe Iii Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 1981 by Indiana Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-253-28870-7, ISBN: 0-253-28870-3
"The National Museum of African Art began as a private educational institution in 1964 and became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1979. This volume includes highlights from the museum's holdings of traditional African art from throughout the continent, although the majority of works originated in sub-Saharan Africa. The 150 objects presented include sculpted masks and figures, regalia, items of personal adornment, textiles, furnit ..."
"The rich holdings of African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian art in the Indiana University Art Museum constitute one of the finest collections of its kind in the United States. This catalog reproduces and describes in detail more than 160 selected examples of the traditional arts of these diverse cultures. Three of the world's leading specialists have contributed substantial essays on the stylistic, cultural, and historical characteristics ..."