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| | PUBLISHER Snoeck PublishersBOOK FORMAT Clothbound, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 536 pgs / 500 color. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 12/15/2007 No longer our product DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 88 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789053496268 TRADE List Price: $85.00 CDN $100.00 AVAILABILITY Not available | EXHIBITION SCHEDULEChicago The Art Institute of Chicago, 06/27/08-09/21/08 | | THE SPRING 2024 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG | Preview our Spring 2024 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture. |
|   |   | SNOECK PUBLISHERSBenin: Kings and RitualsCourt Arts from NigeriaEdited by Barbara Plakensteiner. Foreword by O.J. Eboreime.
Published to accompany the major international touring exhibition which comes to Chicago in the summer of 2008, this monumental volume features more than 500 stunning reproductions alongside important new scholarship on the prized sculptures and carvings of the Benin Kingdom of sixteenth- through nineteenth-century West Africa (pre-colonial Nigeria). It brings together for the first time masterpieces that have been scattered all over the world since the end of the nineteenth century, while simultaneously documenting the fall of the independent kingdom, its reconstitution in the twentieth century and its continued existence through today. From elaborate bas-relief plaques to stately commemorative king's heads and towering elephant tusks embellished with detailed figurative scenes illustrating life at court and the heroic deeds of kings and warriors, the artworks gathered here glorifiy the king as the political and spiritual head of his people and honored his ancestors. The detailed workmanship and outstanding aesthetic quality of Benin's royal sculptures have been compared to the work of the celebrated Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. And their wealth of iconographic detail conveys the sumptuousness of the royal court and its historical importance as a regional powerhouse in the Benin (or Edo) era.
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FORMAT: Clothbound, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 536 pgs / 500 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $85.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $100 ISBN: 9789053496268 PUBLISHER: Snoeck Publishers AVAILABLE: 12/15/2007 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: No longer our product AVAILABILITY: Not available
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| Benin: Kings and Rituals Court Arts from Nigeria Published by Snoeck Publishers. Edited by Barbara Plakensteiner. Foreword by O.J. Eboreime. Published to accompany the major international touring exhibition which comes to Chicago in the summer of 2008, this monumental volume features more than 500 stunning reproductions alongside important new scholarship on the prized sculptures and carvings of the Benin Kingdom of sixteenth- through nineteenth-century West Africa (pre-colonial Nigeria). It brings together for the first time masterpieces that have been scattered all over the world since the end of the nineteenth century, while simultaneously documenting the fall of the independent kingdom, its reconstitution in the twentieth century and its continued existence through today.
From elaborate bas-relief plaques to stately commemorative king's heads and towering elephant tusks embellished with detailed figurative scenes illustrating life at court and the heroic deeds of kings and warriors, the artworks gathered here glorifiy the king as the political and spiritual head of his people and honored his ancestors. The detailed workmanship and outstanding aesthetic quality of Benin's royal sculptures have been compared to the work of the celebrated Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. And their wealth of iconographic detail conveys the sumptuousness of the royal court and its historical importance as a regional powerhouse in the Benin (or Edo) era.
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