The World of Songye (3 volumes)
Anne van Cutsem - Vanderstraete (Ed.), François Neyt, Bernard de Grunne, Alexis Maggiar, Kevin Dumouchelle, Karel Timmermans o.a.
Mercatorfonds, 2025
€250,00
The originality of The World of Songye lies in the collaboration of 17 authors with diverse experience and skills. This multifaceted study of the art and culture of this Central African people is now the new reference work.
These three richly illustrated volumes offer the reader a new perspective. While the pages show numerous masterpieces of Songye art – statues, masks, ornaments, accessories and weapons – many other subjects are also explored: the relationship between nature and culture, which is a true breeding ground for the creativity of artists, styles, master hands, aesthetics, symbolism, the sacred nature and functions of objects of power and rituals, the context in which certain pieces were collected and the influence of Songye works on modern and contemporary art, in particular on Jean-Michel Basquiat.
This essential work also contains many field photographs and beautiful previously unpublished photographs, which open the doors of various museum and private collections to the readers.
ISBN: 9789462303331
