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Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles 1980. 27.0 x 23.0cms, 24pp, b/w & duotone illusts, very good paperback & cover The Maroons are the descendants of African slaves who established new societies in Saramaka. The chapters are: an introduction to the Suriname Maroons; art & aesthetics in Maroon life; personal adornment; woodcarving; calabashes; performance; iconography & social meaning; continuity-in-change, African aesthetics & Afro-American dynamism
AFRO-AMERICAN ARTS OF THE SURINAME RAIN FOREST. by Price, Sally and Richard Price - 1980
by Price, Sally and Richard Price
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AFRO-AMERICAN ARTS OF THE SURINAME RAIN FOREST.
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Museum of Cultural History/ University of California:, 1980. 237 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. "The Maroons of Suriname, in northeastern South America, are the descendents of African slaves who escaped from costal plantations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and established now societies and cultures in the rain forest. With a freedom unique in Afro-America to develop their cultural forms, and drawing on their diverse African past, the Maroons created a way of life rich in artistic expression- woodcarving, textile arts, calabash decoration and the myriad arts of performance." This book was published to accompany the exhibition by the Museum of Cultural History at UCLA, in 1980. FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Date Published 1980
- Keywords AFRO-AMERICAN, AFRO-AMERICAN ART, SURINAME RAIN FOREST, ART HISTORY, MAROON AFRICAN PRIMITIVE ETHNOGRAPHIC ARTS
- Size 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1980. 237p., colored and b/w illus., original stiff printed wrappers, quarto format.
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University of California Press. Used - Good. Good condition. (Suriname, Afro-American Art, Exhibition Catalogs) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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