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DEAL OF THE DAY

L'ora dello spettatore. Come le immagini ci usano.

Edited by M. Di Monte and Gennari Santori F.
Roma, 2020; paperback, pp. 264, col. ill., cm 21x27.

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L'ora dello spettatore. Come le immagini ci usano.

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L'ora dello spettatore. Come le immagini ci usano.

Edited by M. Di Monte and Gennari Santori F.
Roma, 2020; paperback, pp. 264, col. ill., cm 21x27.

FREE (cover price: € n.d.)

L'ora dello spettatore. Come le immagini ci usano.

Caravaggio. La Bottega del Genio

Roma, Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia - Sale Quattrocentesche, December 22, 2010 - May 29, 2011.
Edited by Falucci C.
Roma, 2010; paperback, pp. 118, b/w and col. ill., tavv., cm 24x28.
(Cataloghi Mostre. 49).

FREE (cover price: € 48.00)

Caravaggio. La Bottega del Genio

Caravaggio. La Cappella Contarelli

Roma, Palazzo Venezia, March 10 - October 15, 2011.
Edited by M. Cardinali and De Ruggieri M. B.
Roma, 2011; paperback, pp. 150, 60 b/w ill., 60 col. ill., 60 b/w plates, col. plates, cm 24x28.
(Cataloghi Mostre. 50).

FREE (cover price: € 59.00)

Caravaggio. La Cappella Contarelli

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Wooden Dreams. East African Headrests

Five Continents Editions

English Text.
Milano, 2015; clothbound, pp. 240, col. ill., cm 24,5x28,5.

ISBN: 88-7439-706-2 - EAN13: 9788874397068

Subject: Essays (Art or Architecture),Sculpture,Wood (Frames, Carving, Furniture, Tarsia)

Period: 1960- Contemporary Period

Places: Out of Europe

Extra: African Art and Tribal Art

Languages:  english text  

Weight: 0.79 kg


A comprehensive introduction to African headrests: valuable, very personal objects that offer a view into the social and cultural expression of the African communities where they were created. Headrests are simple, utilitarian objects. Widely used across Africa, they are predominantly found in the eastern, central. and southern part of the continent. Also known as "neckrests" or "pillows," headrests are valuable and very personal objects that are indispensable to everyday life. They are made to sleep on to rest the neck, to sit on, and to protect the elaborate coiffure of their owners. At first sight, they appear to be devoid of any symbolic content. This functional utility has confined them through history to the realm of mere objects. Headrests are not that simple though. They transcend their material purpose to become something more. In many instances, their design, inherent beauty, illustration, technical mastery, and uses give them a multi-purpose value and a multi-layered meaning. They are objects with ritual and magical intent concealed inside their utilitarian function. Headrests can be flaunted as status symbols that differentiate chiefs from ordinary people, rich from poor, diviners from healers, farmers from shepherds, and sedentary from nomadic. The book features full-colour pictures of very rare and fine headrests that have never been published before. Short texts introduce selected pieces among the 230 works that have particularly interesting, well-documented backgrounds. This book is a journey through ethnicity, anthropology, aesthetics, creativity, tradition, and spirituality a journey to a part of Africa that materializes through a simple artefact that sometimes dreams to become art: a dream that starts with resting the neck on a piece of wood.

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