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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.
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Baule Monkeys
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year | 2016 |
| Cover | Hardcover with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-0-300-22244-9 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Weight | 1376 g |
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| Author(s) | Jean-Louis Danis, Bruno Claessens |
| Contributors | Susan M. Vogel |
| Article ID | art-61779 |
The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures.
This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-inspiring bowl-bearing figures evoke invisible powers and serve their communities through the mediation of diviners. Investigating the creation, forms, and usage of the sculptures, the authors sheds light on the cultural and ritual contexts in which they operated.
Beautifully illustrated with over 55 full-page color images of works in public and private collections, this important publication includes also many unpublished field photographs.
