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The Royal Arts of Africa
Language: en
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Authors: Suzanne Preston Blier
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Prentice Hall Press

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Draws on a range of individual objects and archival photos to explore questions of royalty and power, divine kingship, cosmology, and use of art in the African
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Authors: Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Categories: Art
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In the late 15th century, the Kingdom of Benin (located in present-day southwestern Nigeria) established a mercantile relationship with Portugal, significantly
African Royal Court Art
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-12-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this visually stunning work, anthropologist Michèle Coquet presents the power and the brilliance of African court arts. Grounding her analysis in the social
Royal Art of Benin
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