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I ed.. Testo in inglese americano. IV piccolo/ 208/ cart./ sovraccoperta patinata con grafica in b/n/grigio ed illustrata a colori ai piatti (front cover: "Chokwe mwanangana" figure, detail - first flap: Kongo mother and child - back cover: Benin hip mask)/ sovraccoperta in nylon trasparente. With 138 color and black-and-white illustrations. Sguardie in cartoncino color mattone. Photo: Photo Studios, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston etc.. Designed by Susan Marsh. Stato buono-ottimo. Contents: Director's Foreword - Ways of Experiencing African Art: The Role of Patina; Suzanne Preston Blier - On Collectors, Exhibitions, and Photographs of African Art: The Teel Collection in Hisotical Perspective; Christraud M. Geary - African and African American Art: An African American Legacy; Edmund Barry Gaither - Map of Africa - Catalogue; William E. Teel with Suzanne Preston Blier (Northern Mande and Gur Spheres - Central Mande and Akan Atlantic Regions - The Dynastic Ogun Arena of Yoruba, Benin, and Fon - The Aro/Ngbe Realm of the Niger and Cross Rivers - Courts and Peripheries in the North and Central Savanna - Equatorial Community Traditions - The "Nganga" Spheres of the Kongo and Kasai - Lunda, Eastern Bantu Dynasties, and Traditions Further East) - Bibliography - Acknowledgemnts.