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Cloth, dress, and art patronage in Africa

Author: Judith Perani; Norma Hackleman Wolff
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999.
Series: Dress, body, culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Judith Perani; Norma Hackleman Wolff
ISBN: 1859732909 9781859732908 185973295X 9781859732953
OCLC Number: 41283381
Description: vi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Part 1: The impact of patronage on the arts of Africa --
Art patronage as a generator of cloth and dress --
Cloth and dress as a mirror of culture in Africa --
Art patron roles --
Leadership arts in state societies --
Part 2: The development of Hausa, Nupe and Yoruba cloth and dress traditions --
Historical context of leadership, trade and art patronage --
Patterns of production and consumption in nineteenth-century luxury cloth traditions --
Continuity and change in twentieth-century cloth traditions --
The fashionable world of the Yoruba --
Postscript: To put on cloth.
Series Title: Dress, body, culture.
Responsibility: Judith Perani and Norma H. Wolff.
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