The Arts of Black Africa by Jean Laude (1973)

ISBN: 9780520023581 / 0520023587 - The Arts of Black Africa by Jean Laude, translated by Jean Decock (African Studies Center, UCLA). Published by University of California Press, 1973. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 290 pp.

This book is not another broad, superficial survey of African art. It is an attempt to get past the usual clichés that surround and often obscure African art and history, and to reconsider the basic ideas that underly the art of black Africa and its study. It is thus concerned with attitudes and ideas as well as with facts. This duaI approach, in which attention is given to methodology as well as data, is one of the strongest points of the book.

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