TY - BOOK ID - 101622673 TI - The language of beauty in African art AU - Petridis, Constantijn AU - Biro, Yaëlle AU - Cole, Herbert C. AU - Kone, Kassim AU - Lawal, Babatunde AU - Van Damme, Wilfried AU - Mullin Vogel, Susan AU - Art Institute Chicago PY - 2022 SN - 9780300260045 PB - New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Applied arts. Arts and crafts KW - figurines KW - decorative arts [discipline] KW - maskers KW - African [general, continental cultures] KW - Bamana KW - Baga [culture or style] KW - Igbo [Southern Nigerian style, culture] KW - Chamba [Nigerian] KW - Fang [culture or style] KW - Lega KW - Maasai [culture or style] KW - Aesthetics, African KW - Aesthetics, African. KW - Art africain KW - Art, African KW - Art, African. KW - Esthétique africaine KW - PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. KW - Sculpture africaine KW - Sculpture, African KW - Sculpture, African. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101622673 AB - This ambitious publication centers indigenous perspectives on traditional artworks from Africa by focusing on the judgments and vocabularies of members of the communities who created and used them. It explores cross-cultural affinities spanning the African continent while respecting local contexts; it also documents an exhibition that is extraordinary in scope and scale. The project's overriding goal is to reconsider Western evaluations of these arts in both aesthetic and financial terms. The volume features nearly 300 works from collections around the world and from the important holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago. Although it emphasizes the sculptural legacy of sub-Saharan cultures from West and Central Africa, it also includes examples of artistic traditions associated with eastern and southern Africa as well as textiles and objects designed for domestic, ritual, and decorative functions. ER -