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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Suzanne Preston Blier |
ISBN: | 0226058603 9780226058603 0226058581 9780226058580 |
OCLC Number: | 1110294712 |
Notes: | Originally published: 1995. |
Description: | xi, 476 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments Linguistic Note Introduction: Ties that Bind: The Psychology and Power of Art 1: Vodun Art, Social History, and the Slave Trade 2: Audiences, Artists, and Sculptural Activators 3: Design in Desire: Transference and the Arts of [actual symbol not reproducible] 4: Bodies and Being: Anatomy, Anamnesis, and Representation 5: The I and Not-I in Artistic Expressions of the Self 6: Alchemy and Art: Matter, Mind, and Sculptural Meaning 7: Surface Parergon and the Arts of Suturing 8: The Force of Genre: Sculptural Tension and Typology 9: Power, Art, and the Mysteries of Rule Conclusions, Concomitants, and Comparisons Appendix: Collections and Stylistic Features Sources Notes Bibliography Index |
Responsibility: | Suzanne Preston Blier. |
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