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Visions from the forests: the art of Liberia and Sierra Leone

  • Alternate title

    Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone

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 sculptures 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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Publisher

  • Publication

    • Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
    • Seattle: Distributed by the University of Washington Press, [2014]

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    ca. 1300-1999

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  • ISBN

    • 0989371816
    • 9780989371810

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    • "The exhibition features some 70 artworks from the collection of William Siegmann (1943-2011) that survey the traditional arts of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Siegmann, a former curator of African art at the Brooklyn Museum, lived and worked in Liberia from 1965 to 1987. While there, he began collecting art from Liberia and Sierra Leone. Siegmann's collection, particularly rich in masks, provides an overview of the region's traditional art forms, including numerous objects used in men's and women's initiation associations, jewelry and prestige objects of cast brass and horn, small stone figures dating from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and woven and dyed textiles."--Smithsonian Institution website, viewed May 8, 2014.
    • Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, April 9-August 17, 2014; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, September 20, 2014-February 8, 2015; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, March-May 2015; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, July-October 2015--Colophon.

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