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Arturo Martini. I capolavori

Treviso, Museo “luigi Bailo”, March 31 - July 30, 2023.
Edited by Stringa Nico and Fabrizio Malachin.
Cornuda, 2023; paperback, pp. 278, col. ill., cm 23x29.

cover price: € 33.00

Arturo Martini. I capolavori

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Arturo Martini. I capolavori

Treviso, Museo “luigi Bailo”, March 31 - July 30, 2023.
Edited by Stringa Nico and Fabrizio Malachin.
Cornuda, 2023; paperback, pp. 278, col. ill., cm 23x29.

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Arturo Martini. I capolavori

Studi su Arturo Martini. Per Ofelia

Edited by Matteo Ceriana and Claudia Gian Ferrari.
Milano, Atti del Covegno, 19 maggio 2008.
Milano, 2009; paperback, pp. 136, 97 b/w ill., cm 17x24.

FREE (cover price: € 29.00)

Studi su Arturo Martini. Per Ofelia

Canova. L'invenzione della gloria. Disegni, dipinti e sculture.

Genova, Palazzo Reale, April 16 - July 24, 2016.
Edited by Giuliana Ericani and Franceasco Leone.
Roma, 2016; paperback, pp. 306, col. ill., col. plates, cm 23x30.

FREE (cover price: € 35.00)

Canova. L'invenzione della gloria. Disegni, dipinti e sculture.

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Guro

Five Continents Editions

English Text.
Milano, 2016; paperback, pp. 60, 20 b/w ill., 60 col. ill., cm 16,5x24.
(Visions of Africa).

series: Visions of Africa

Other editions available: French Edition (ISBN: 88-7439-733-X)

ISBN: 88-7439-732-1 - EAN13: 9788874397327

Subject: Collections,Essays (Art or Architecture),Sculpture,Wood (Frames, Carving, Furniture, Tarsia)

Places: Out of Europe

Extra: African Art and Tribal Art

Languages:  english text  

Weight: 0.66 kg


This is the first book on the Guro, who live in the Ivory Coast in close contact with the neighboring Wan, Baule, Yaure, and Bete. For the Guro, the importance of masks goes well beyond aesthetics; they can be considered emblematic, allowing those who wear them to lay claim to their identity as Guro. Despite the effects of French colonization on the Ivory Coast, weakening the prestige of men whose power once resulted from hunting and war activities, the continuation of complex rituals utilizing masks allows these same men to preserve a form of political and religious control. By separating the categories of masks between those created for blood sacrifices to honor spiritual entities and those made for performances at funerals, political demonstrations, and even tourist events, the Guro have reinvented, galvanized, and readapted perfectly integrated rituals to a contemporary society in constant change.

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