African masters
Subtitle: art from the Ivory Coast
By: Eberhard Fischer, Lorenz Homberger ; with contributions by Monica Blackmun Visonà, Daniela Bognolo, Bernard de Grunne ; translation from German into English, Lynne Kolar-Thompson
Contributors: Homberger, Lorenz, author, curator; Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953- contributor; Bognolo, Daniela, contributor; Grunne, Bernard de, contributor; Kolar-Thompson, Lynne, translator; Museum Rietberg
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783858817617
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Wood-carving; Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Musée du quai Branly; Wood-carvers; Museum Rietberg; Sculpture; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Exhibitions; West African Art; Artists; Ivoirian Wood sculpture
Work titles: Afrikanische Meister
Notes: English-language version of: Afrikanische Meister : Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, catalog of an exhibition organized by Museum Rietberg Zurich in cooperation with the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn.

Exhibition held at Museum Rietberg Zurich, February 14-June 1, 2014; Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, June 27-October 5, 2014; De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, October 25, 2014-February 15, 2015; Musée du quai Branly, Paris, April 7-July 26, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The cultural diversity of the Côte d'Ivoire / Lorenz Homberger; title: Guro carvers / Eberhard Fischer; title: Artistic creativity and anonymity in the Lagoon region of the Ivory Coast / Monica Blackmun Visonà; title: About the Baule style and its masters / Bernard de Grunne; title: Dan master carvers of the twentieth century / Eberhard Fischer; title: Artists in Senufo workshops / Lorenz Homberger; title: The art of the Lobi : African masters and their forms of expression / Daniela Bognolo; title: Metamorphoses : from an "exceptional object" to an internationally traded "work of art" / Eberhard Fischer; title: Modern and contemporary artists from the Ivory Coast / Monica Blackmun Visonà.