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Africa: the art of a continent

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Field name	Details
ISBN	3791320041 (pbk.)
Title	Africa : the art of a continent / edited by Tom Phillips
Publisher	Munich ; London : Prestel, 1999
Physical desc.	615 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.
Note	"First published on the occasion of the exhibition Africa: the art of a continent, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 4 October 1995-21 January 1996" -- T.p. verso.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-613) and index.
Contents	Preface / Cornel West -- Introduction / Tom Phillips -- Why Africa? why art? / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Europe, African art and the uncanny / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The African past / Peter Garlake -- Ancient Egypt and Nubia / Edna R. Russman and Lásló Török -- Eastern Africa / John Mack -- Southern Africa / Patricia Davison -- Central Africa / Daniel Biebuyck and Frank Herreman -- West Africa and the Guinea coast / John Picton -- Sahel and Savanna / René A. Bravmann -- Northern Africa / Timothy A. Insoll, M. Rachel MacLean, R.J.A. Wilson, Nadia Erzini, Rachel Ward.
Corporate name	Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) -- Exhibitions
Subject	Art, African -- Exhibitions
Added name(s)	Phillips, Tom 1937- ed.
Added name(s) - Corporate	Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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