Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa

by Karen Milbourne

Featuring more than 100 extraordinary works of art from 1800 to the present, Earth Matters reveals how African individuals and communities have visually mediated their most poignant relationships with the land--whether it be to earth as a sacred or medicinal material, as something uncovered by mining or claimed by burial, as a surface to be interpreted and turned to for inspiration, or as an environment to be protected. Both internationally recognized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158093370X
• ISBN13: 9781580933704
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 11.2" x 9.7"