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Title: AFRICAN ROYAL COURT ART
By: Michele Coquet, Jane Marie Todd (Trans)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0226115755
ISBN 13: 9780226115757
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Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. date: 1 December, 1998
Pages: 190
Translated from: French
Description: Grounding its analysis in the social/historical context of traditional royalty systems, this text examines the roles played by artisans, nobles, and kings in the production of royal objects of African court arts. It reconstructs the cultural connections between art, representation and the king.
Synopsis: Grounding its analysis in the social and historical context of traditional royalty systems, this text examines the diverse roles played by artisans, nobles, and kings in the production and use of royal objects. From the precolonial kingdoms of the Edo and the Yoruba, the Ashanti and the Igbo, Michele Coquet reconstructs from a comparativist view the essential cultural connections between art, representation and the king. More than ornamentation, royal objects embodied the strength and status of African rulers. The gold-plated stools of the Ashanti, the delicately carved ivory bracelets of the Edo - these objects were meant not simply to adorn but to affirm and enhance the power and prestige of the wearer. Unlike the abstract style frequently seen in African ritual art, realism became manifest in courtly arts. Realism directly linked the symbolic value of the object - a portrait or relief - with the physical person of the king. The contours of the monarch's face, his political and military exploits rendered on palace walls, became visual histories, the work of art in essence corroborating the ruler's sovereign might.
Illustrations: 52 colour plates, 102 halftones, 2 maps
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Returns: Returnable
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