African Art - the De Havenon Collection

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Superb book of high quality images suitable for framing.
From the museum of African Art in Washington DC. Most of … more Superb book of high quality images suitable for framing.
From the museum of African Art in Washington DC. Most of these works are wood.
When viewing African art and museums or private homes, we must constantly remind ourselves that we are seeing it out of context. Even figures which are sculpturally self contained, lose a great deal when we moved from their original setting and from the ritual and ceremony in which they were intended to play a part. less