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African Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Homme presents a selection of masterpieces from the vast ethnographic collection of France’s preeminent ethnographic museum.

Sets, Series and Ensembles in African Art presents a fundamental, but unexpected, aspect of African art—objects which were intended to be used together, emphasizing the importance of their function and meaning as part of a group.

African Aesthetics: The Carlo Monzino Collection introduces the reader to African sculptures as fine examples by individual master artists, as well as a reflection of moral values. The selection of works in the book is a reassertion of the collector’s choice of pieces acquired solely on the basis of their provocative aesthetic merit.

In Perspectives: Angles on African Art, ten distinguished connoisseurs explore the beauty and appeal in over one hundred African artworks of the highest aesthetic quality and tremendous ranges of styles and cultures.

ART/artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections deals with the ways Western outsiders regard African art and material culture.

African Masterpieces from Munich: The Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde presents 450 selections from one of Germany’s premiere ethnographic museums whose collection of over 20,000 African objects was drawn from many sources, including the royal ethnographic collection and collections made by scientists, explorers, art lovers, and other museums.

The Art of Collecting African Art brings together selections of figures, masks, prestige and utilitarian objects from nine important private collections of African art providing a base for the discussion of collecting and the collectors’ personal impulses and tastes along with a bit of advice based on lessons learned from experience.

Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory retraces the African and European sources of ivories which were the earliest objects from sub-Saharan Africa to reach European collections.

Wild Spirits, Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness explores African concepts of the nature/culture, wilderness/village dichotomy as it is expressed through works of art.