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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Under the Influence of Songye
| Publisher | Éditions Gourcuff Gradenigo |
| Year | 2012 |
| Cover | Softcover |
| Language | English, French |
| ISBN | 978-2-35340-139-0 |
| Pages | 257 |
| Weight | 794 g |
| More | |
| Author(s) | Julien Volper |
| Contributors | Bernard Dulon, Sandra Delvaux Agbessi |
| Article ID | art-20177 |
The history of the countless masks that have left Africa for Europe and the United States.
By some strange magic, the result of artistic talent, these masks are not reduced to mere "ethnographic trophies" hung on the cold walls of museums or private homes; whether studied by researchers or confronted by museum visitors, they keep intact and display proudly that famous, indefinable aura the "layman" experiences in their presence.
Very little is known about the astonishing round striated masks produced by the eastern Luba, and it is easier to highlight their strange beauty and their European pedigrees than to expand on the few established facts. They are known arbitrarily as "kifwebe", after the society of the same name found among the Luba and Songye, although nothing confirms their association with this iconographically charged label.
Each mask in its own way is a witness to, as well as the result of, cultural and artistic exchange between the various Katango and Kasaï cultures. The history of these round masks and crested masks carry us to various cultures, various beliefs.
