Wild spirits, strong medicine
Subtitle: African art and the wilderness
By: Martha G. Anderson, Christine Mullen Kreamer ; edited by Enid Schildkrout ; photographs by Jerry L. Thompson ; foreword by Susan Vogel.
Contributors: Kreamer, Christine Mullen.; Schildkrout, Enid.; Thompson, Jerry L.; Center for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Center for African Art; University of Washington Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York; Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Art, Black -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions; Symbolism in art -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions; Wilderness (Theology) in art -- Exhibitions; Art and society -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Wild spirits.
Description: "Wild Spirits, Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness explores African concepts of the nature/culture, wilderness/village dichotomy as it is expressed through works of art. The opposition between nature and culture, one of the fundamental organizing principles of African cosmologies, is an old topic in anthropological discourse. It has, however, never been closely examined in African art. African ideas about the qualities of the wilderness and the village give us insights into African concepts of civilization. These ideas are explored through a sifting of past research and current studies on the subject, and the inclusion of related works of art"--Book jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 145-151.
Cover title: Wild spirits.
Catalog of a travelling exhibition held at New York's Center for African Art (5/10-8/20/89) and other sites.
Includes index.