The sculpture of the Dogon people of Mali constitutes one of the richest artistic traditions of West Africa and is a highlight of the Metropolitan Museum's permanent collection of African art. This handsome book features sixty-three of the finest pieces of Dogon art collected by Lester Wunderman, several of which have been donated to the Museum's permanent collection. The text incorporates the most up-to-date research and thinking on the complex subject of ritual art and on the context in which Dogon sculpture was originally produced and used. Each piece has been especially photographed for this volume and is accompanied by a detailed discussion of its function, style, and significance. Also included are maps, a bibliography, and more than eighty photographs, some of them taken in the field by Eliot Elisofon and Lester Wunderman.
(This title was originally published in 1987/88.)
- ISBN10 0300193955
- ISBN13 9780300193954
- Publish Date 9 October 2012 (first published 1 January 1988)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 116
- Language English