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Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum by Kathy Curnow (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity Museum Publications

ISBN-101949057194

ISBN-139781949057195

eBay Product ID (ePID)20065698817

Product Key Features

Number of Pages148 Pages

Publication NameGuide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectGeneral, Anthropology / General, History / General, African

TypeTextbook

AuthorKathy Curnow

Subject AreaArt, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight32.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2024-008392

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal709.0221

Table Of ContentList of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Glossary 1 The Benin Collection 2 Benin Court and Domestic Life 3 Benin Religion 4 The Benin Palace 5 Trade and Foreigners 6 Recent Developments References Cited About the Author Index

SynopsisThis guide examines America's oldest collection of Benin art, and one of its least published. Ivory, brass, and wooden art from one of the greatest African precolonial states--the only sub-Saharan polity with 500 years of surviving art--are examined through contextual lenses that provide insight into the do people's creativity and world view. The guide also considers the collection's specific history and growth, and current plans to repatriate the artworks back to Nigeria's Benin Kingdom. For readers unfamiliar with Benin and its art, this introduces the complexities of the palace, its successive monarchs and chiefs, and interprets metaphorical motifs such as mudfish, leopards, and elephants. Artworks refer to family and court rivalries, as well as the strict court hierarchies that dictated who could use which materials and wear particular regalia. Interactions with the Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries, their impact on trade and luxury goods, and their introduction of Catholicism paint a portrait of a society that absorbed only what they found useful and flourished in both war and peace. Original fieldwork illuminates Benin art and culture and previously published archival material provides insight regarding major collectors and individuals who shaped the field of African art history.

LC Classification NumberN7399.N52B4535 2024