The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

by Cécile Fromont

Book Overview

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, C cile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469618710
• ISBN13: 9781469618715
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"