Seeing the Unseen : Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural "Frontier" /

"How do arts convey the existence of potent knowledge without revealing details of that knowledge? In Seeing the Unseen, art historian Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi examines tensions between the seen and unseen that makers, patrons, and audiences of arts in western West Africa negotiate through obj...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Symbolism in art.
Arts and society.
Aesthetics, African.
Power associations (Ethnology) > Africa, French-speaking West.
Arts and society > Africa, French-speaking West.
French-speaking Western Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Power associations
  • Assemblages
  • Performers and performances
  • Unseeing audiences
  • Komo on screen
  • Coda: embracing unstable ground.

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