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| African Art at the Harn Museum: Spirit Eyes Human Hands | 
 enlarge | Author: Robin Poynor
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Category: Book
List Price: $59.95
Buy Used: $22.99
You Save: $36.96 (62%)
Sales Rank: 280075
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 221
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 0813013259
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.6607475979
EAN: 9780813013251
ASIN: 0813013259
Publication Date: January 1995
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With dramatic colour and black-and-white photographs of 93 pieces of art, "Spirit Eyes, Human Hands" introduces the notable collection of West African art from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. In the traditional view of many Africans, the spiritual and temporal worlds depend upon each other for companionship and material well-being. As the inhabitants of either realm cross and recross their world boundaries, art objects function as intimate links between the two domains, allowing both spirit and human to see and to manipulate each other. This work specifically addresses the role of the art object - a bowl from Cameroon, a mask from Burkina Faso or Sierra Leone, an ancestral altar from Nigeria, a fertility figure from Ghana - as a medium through which each world gains entrance into the other. Poynor's essay presents each work in its geographic and cultural context. Line drawings and abundant field photographs enhance the text and support the idea that objects assist communication between two worlds.
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