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LaGamma, Alisa,

Kongo : power and majesty / Alisa Lagamma ; with contributions by Josiah Blackmore [and seven others] - 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 18, 2015-January 3, 2016. "A landmark presentation that will radically redefine our understanding of Africa's relationship with the West, Kongo: Power and Majesty, opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this September, will focus on one of the continent's most influential artistic traditions, from the earliest moment of direct engagement between African and European leaders at the end of the 15th century through the early 20th century. The creative output of Kongo artists of Central Africa will be represented by 134 works drawn from more than 50 institutional and private collections across Europe and the United States, reflecting five hundred years of encounters and shifting relations between European and Kongo leaders. From a dynamic assembly of 15 monumental power figures to elegantly carved ivories and finely woven textiles, the exhibition will explore how the talents of Central Africa's most gifted artists were directed toward articulating a culturally distinct vernacular of power."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.

Director's foreword --Acknowledgments --Lenders to the exhibition --Map of Africa --Chronology of kingship --Kongo : power and majesty / --The Kingdom of Loango / --The Kingdom of Kongo / --European images of the Kongolese in books / --Out of Kongo and into the Kunstkammer / --Kongo female power / --Mangaaka / --Notes --Works in the exhibition. Alisa LaGamma Phyllis M. Martin John K. Thornton Josiah Blackmore Alisa LaGamma Alisa LaGamma Alisa LaGamma

ISBN: 1588395758 9781588395757

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art, Kongo--Exhibitions.
Art, Kongo--Influence--Exhibitions.
Art, Kongo--European influences--Exhibitions.
Art--Kongo Kingdom--Exhibitions.
Art--Africa, Central--Exhibitions.

LC Class. No.: Art/N7399.C6 / L34 2015