Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures - Alisa LaGamma - Google Books

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Over the centuries, artists across sub-Saharan Africa have memorialized eminent figures in their societies using an astonishingly diverse repertoire of naturalistic and abstract sculptural idioms. Adopting complex aesthetic fromulations, they idealized…