African Art and Artefacts in European Collections 1400-1800.(Book Review)

African Arts | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

Ezio Bassani

British Museum Press, London, 2001. xxxix + 328 pp., 615 b/w photos, CD-ROM. 85 [pounds sterling] hardcover.

The publication of this book, the culmination of decades of work by Ezio Bassani, is a major event in the art history of Africa. It answers the call made by Jan Vansina in 1984 for "a systematic reference catalogue [for Africa] listing all known objects and all iconographic representations for different periods of time" (1) and shows how much can be achieved for the history of African art by a thorough investigation of original archival ...

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