Art of the Baga: a Drama of Cultural Reinvention
1996ref. 212648New York / Munich: Museum for African Art / Prestel 1996. Hardcover. VG. Jacket has some wear along the top edge and bumping to the rear fore edge corner. Book itself is clean and unmarked. Quarto. Hardcover. Tan cloth in illustrated jacket. 267 pages : illustrations some color color maps ; 31 cm. Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention traces the art and cultural history of these very special African people from their legendary flight from the mystical highlands of the interior of Guinea to the coast in their attempt to conserve their own religious ritual to the eventual destruction of their traditions at mid century with the conversion to Islam and with independence from France the establishment of the Republic of Guinea under an iconoclastic Marxist regime. In the book the Baga voice is heard prominently in the direct testimony of three Baga writers and forty Baga consultants of all ages and background experience from ten-year-old boys to elders and ritual leaders of over 100 years of age. Artistic creation and reinvention form the core of issues raised throughout the art historical drama. Museum for African Art / Prestel hardcover books
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