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Closeup: Lessons in Art of Seeing African Sculpture
Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture presents African art objects of exceptional aesthetic quality from an American collection and the Horstmann collection. But the book is more than an assemblage of masterpieces of African art. It is an exercise in how to look at African sculpture—and by extension—at all sculpture.
This theme is fully developed in the essay and texts, and carries through to the photographs which are a veritable invitation to see African sculpture in a new way. It is demonstrated that the forms of African art suggest a particular relationship to the viewer; the images express an underlying assumption that making a sculpture may be more important than displaying it for a human viewer.
An essay by noted photographer Jerry L. Thompson shows both detail and full views of the most complex objects with his thoughts on looking at sculpture. In the catalogue of the objects, formal analysis of the sculptures guides the eye and enriches the experience, describing points of style, design, and technique.
Exhibition catalogue by Jerry L. Thompson and Susan Vogel with ethnological notes on the objects by Anne D'Alleva.
Published and distributed by The Center for African Art, September 1990. 196 pp.
Cloth ISBN: 0-945802-07-2. Paper ISBN: 0-945802-08-0. LCCN: 90-42065.
