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African vision: the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection

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African vision: the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection

In 2005, the Walt Disney Company donated its Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art. One of the world's finest collections of African art, it contains iconic pieces dating from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries and represents seventy-five peoples and twenty countries. This book explores the many ways that the collection reflects Africa's rich history and culture. Figures carved in stone, wood, and ivory; stools, masks, crowns, jewellery, and hunting tools - each object is presented in vivid colour plates and accompanied by texts providing information about the objects' history, uses, and materials. This beautiful book accompanies the first public presentation of the collection in the past twenty years.

In 2005, one of the greatest private collections of traditional African art, assembled by Paul and Ruth Tishman and purchased by the Disney Corporation, was donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. This is the catalog for the collection's first public presentation in 20 years. As curator Kreamer emphasizes, the 90 pieces herein, which date from the 15th to the 20th centuries and represent the work of 75 people from 20 countries, have become "icons" to those who study and appreciate African sculpture, as they have been featured in many of the most important exhibitions and publications on the subject. Each object is showcased in an exquisite full-page color photograph and includes an extensive descriptive entry. Kreamer's text on the history of the collection, its role in the study of African art, and her overview of African art history are written in a clear style, with a minimum of academic jargon. Bryna Freyer and Andrea Nicolls, also curators at the museum, and Martin Sklar )vice chairman & principal creative executive, Walt Disney Imagineering( contribute. Highly recommended for any library with an interest in art. Eugene C. Burt, Seattle Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

London

New York

Prestel Pub.

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution

2007

xvii, 235 p.: ill.; 31 cm.

ISBN: 9783791338026

Christine Mullen Kreamer; with contributions by Bryna Freyer & Andrea Nicolls; introduction by Martin Skylar

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، Art, African -- Exhibitions

، Sculpture, African -- Exhibitions

، Art -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions

، Art, African -- Private collections -- Washington )D.C.( -- Exhibitions

، Art -- Washington )D.C.( -- Exhibitions

، Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection--Exhibitions

، Tishman, Paul -- Art collections -- Exhibitions

، Walt Disney Company -- Art collections -- Exhibitions

، National Museum of African Art )U.S.( -- Exhibitions

Kreamer, Christine Mullen

AU

AU Freyer, Bryna

AU Nicolls, Andrea

AU Skylar, Martin

CO National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution

TI