Visions from the forests : the art of Liberia and Sierra Leone / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot, general editors ; essays by Mariane C. Ferme and Paul Richards [and six others] ; catalogue by Alexander Bortolot, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Natasha Thoreson.
Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of the same name organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-232) and index.
Contents:
Remembering Bill Siegmann / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- Forests in the imagination of the Upper Guinea coast / Mariane C. Ferme and Paul Richards -- Extending the stage : photography and Sande intitiates in the early twentieth century / Nanina Guyer -- "By their fruits you will know them" : Sande mask carvers identified / Frederick John Lamp -- Spirits from the forest : Dan masks in performance and everyday life / Daniel B. Reed -- Brass casting in Liberia / Barbara C. Johnson -- Ritual recycling : modern uses of ancient stone sculptiures in the Upper Guinea forest region / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- William Siegmann, advocate for connoisseurship / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Catalogue of objects / Alexander Bortolot, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, and Natasha Thoreson -- Appendix : A historiography of the term nòwo / Frederick John Lamp.
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