Early Art and Architecture of Africa

by Peter Garlake

Book Overview

This new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West Africa, Great Zimbabwe, and the East African coast--treating each in detail and setting them in their social and historical context. Garlake is long familiar with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192842617
• ISBN13: 9780192842619
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.3"