Shields: Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania - From the Collection of the Barbier-Mueller Museum (African, Asian & Oceanic Art S.)

by Purissima Benitez-Johannot and Jean Paul Barbier

Alain-Michel Boyer (Introduction), Jean Paul Barbier (Foreword), and Alain-Michel Boyer (Director of Research and Professor of African Literature and Art, University of Nantes, France) (Introduction)

Since ancient times the shield has had a variety of uses whether as a defensive or more rarely offensive weapon or as a decorative or ritual object invested with symbolic meaning. Drawing on the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva this book examines the literary and mythological aspects of shields from Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania, placing them in historical context and interpreting them as beautiful objects with a language of their own.

• ISBN10: 3791323415
• ISBN13: 9783791323411
• Publish Date: 16 August 2000
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 11 July 2006
• Publish Country: DE
• Imprint: Prestel
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 256
• Language: English