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Kota, Paperback by Perrois, Louis, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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- ISBN
- 9788874396078
- Book Title
- Kota
- Book Series
- Visions of Africa Ser., Visions of Africa
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- 5 Continents
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback, Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Sculpture & Installation, History / Prehistoric & Primitive, African
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 22.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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-An in-depth exploration of the significance of art in the culture of the Kota people of Gabon in equatorial Africa, focusing on form, function and meaning, as well as the interplay of verbal and visual imagery This new title in the Visions of Africa series offers a deep insight into the art of the Kota people of Gabon in the coastal area of western equatorial Africa. The Kota have developed an astonishing creativity in their representations of their ancestors. Their dreamlike figures combine a sharp sense of stylized reality tending towards abstraction with an extraordinary and imaginative use of copper, tin, and iron for purposes of decoration. But what seems to have been just a matter of aesthetic 'taste' has in fact a symbolic function, as most of the decorative motifs and the choice of the technique are linked to the Kota's kinship system or religious beliefs. The same applies to the use of copper, which was a rare material and consequently a mark of wealth and power in their society. The mbulu-ngulu reliquary figure was an icon, the visual sign of a world in which the ancestors continued to watch over their descendants. In Kota lands it was an essential 'tool' in group survival, one that enabled a continuous communication to be established between the living and the dead. The reliquary figures and initiation masks of the Kota and Mbete served as aides-m moire and instruments useful in arousing the forces of the netherworld among the Gabonese and Congolese in times past. Together with the Fang byeri and other nkisi punu, in their various forms they have gradually become the time-honored emblems of the culture and ancestral values of the peoples of the great African equatorial forest.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
5 Continents
ISBN-10
8874396074
ISBN-13
9788874396078
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117378818
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kota
Format
Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, History / Prehistoric & Primitive, African
Book Series
Visions of Africa Ser., Visions of Africa
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
N7399.G252
Publication Date
2012-10-01
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
704.0396721
Dewey Edition
23
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