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To Cure and Protect Sickness and Health in African Art
Given ongoing international debates about health and health care, it seems both appropriate and timely to consider the ways that non-Western cultures have conceived of, visualized, and treated sickness and health. To Cure and Protect presents sculptures, masks, amulets, and other objects used as part of healing traditions in sub-Saharan Africa, both to cure disease and to prevent future affliction. Exhibition catalogue by Frank Herreman with a contribution, The Universal Search for Health, Role of Art as a Return to the Future by Bernard M. Wagner, M.D.
Published and distributed by the Museum for African Art, New York, February 1977. 64 pp.
Paper: ISBN 0-945802-22-6. LCCN: 98-67550.
Published and distributed by the Museum for African Art, New York, February 1977. 64 pp.
Paper: ISBN 0-945802-22-6. LCCN: 98-67550.