Title: Art in Africa.
Authors: Bodrogi, Tibor.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 1968
Subjects: Art Africa, West.; Art, Black Africa, West.
Abstract: The Director of the Ethnological Museum of Budapest explains the cult functions of the bronzes, ivories, masks, fetishes, and other art of the African cultures of the past.
Contents: Introduction -- Changes in Western attitudes toward African art -- African art south of the Sahara -- Function and use in African art -- Materials and techniques of African art -- The artist in African society -- The history of African art -- Style in African art -- Western Sudan -- The Atlantic Coast and the Forest Belt -- Civilizations of the Guinea Coast -- Nigeria -- From the Niger to the Congo -- The Congo -- Today and tomorrow -- Bibliography -- Detailed description of color plates -- Detailed description of black-and-white plates -- List of drawings -- Plates -- Index.