Legacies of stone
Subtitle: Zimbabwe past and present
By: edited by William J. Dewey, Els De Palmenaer ; with contributions by David N. Beach [and others]
Contributors: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale
Publisher: Royal Museum for Central Africa
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Tervuren
Language: eng
Subjects: Zimbabwean Art; Exhibitions; Zimbabwean Sculpture; Antiquities
Other titles: Zimbabwe past and present
Notes: Issued in case.

"... Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title presented at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) from 5 November 1997 to 30 April 1998"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Portrait of a cave : an entry into the rock paintings of Zimbabwe / Peter S. Garlake. Images of a fertility complex : Iron Age figurines from Zimbabwe / Edward Matenga. The origins and development of the stone-building cultures of Zimbabwe / Gilbert Pwiti. Aspects of history : the Zimbabwean region c. 1490-1900 / David N. Beach. Social and religious life in traditional Zimbabwe / Michael F.C. Bourdillon.  radition and change : the visual arts and material culture of Zimbabwers Tonga / Peta A. Jones. Material culture and visual traditions of the Ndebele / Ngwabi Bhebe and Pathisa Nyathi. The arts of the Venda / Anitra Nettleton. The arts of the Hlengwe/Tsonga people of Zimbabwe / Rayda Becker. Useful objects or religious masterpieces? : the art of the Shona  / William J. Dewey and George T. Mvenge.; title: v. 2. Contemporary art in Zimbabwe / Paul Wade. The Western reception of a modern African art : the case of Zimbabwean stone sculpture / Jonathan Zilberg. Twentieth-century stone sculpture in Zimbabwe / Geert G. Bourgeois. Petrography of the rocks used for Zimbabwean sculpture / George Stoops. Mission art in Zimbabwe / Elizabeth Randles. Zimbabwean landscape and cityscape : some examples from Zimbabwean painters and writers in English / Timothy O. McLoughlin. Outsider art : subject and style / Pip Curling. Tourist art : a blessing in disguise? / Geert C. Bourgeois. Bridging cultural boundaries : a school of art and design for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region / Neo Matome and Stephen Williams.