The World of Songye by Neyt, Fran?ois

The World of Songye

The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging This lavishly illustrated book...
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Author: Fran?ois Neyt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The World of Songye by Neyt, Fran?ois

The World of Songye

$734.81

The World of Songye

$734.81
Author: Fran?ois Neyt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging

This lavishly illustrated book brings a new approach to the masterpieces of Songye, a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo, exploring the styles of the different regions, the identification of Songye master artists, and the specificity of Kifwebe masks.

The World of Songye displays a large number of unpublished and specially commissioned photographs of Songye works of art from private and public collections, and of historic field photographs. Edited by the unchallenged specialists of the subject with contributions from ten distinguished writers, World of Songye analyzes Songye aesthetics and symbols, the Songye representation of animals and weapons and the history of collecting Songye artifacts on the field. It also explores the religious and magical functions and powers of Songye objects and their influence on modern art, focusing in particular on Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Author: Fran?ois Neyt, Dieter Buchhart
Publisher: Mercatorfonds
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300267020

About the Author
Anne Vanderstraete-Van Cutsem is an art historian, author and curator of exhibitions at the Dapper, Wereldmuseum, and Barbier-Mueller museums. François Neyt is professor emeritus at Catholic University of Louvain and the author of numerous reference books on African Art.

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