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Column to volume: Formal innovation in Chamba statuary

Column to volume: Formal innovation in Chamba statuary, by Richard Fardon and Christine Stelzig, investigates the appearance on world art markets during the 1970s of statues identified as Chamba from West Africa. Sought after for their artful execution, these statues were stylistically unlike anything previously documented from the region. Are they what the art market claimed? Who made them, when, where and why? Buy this book To...

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Saffron Afriscopes Series

Saffron Books’ book series, Afriscopes: Illustrated Arguments about African Culture, was launched in September 2005 with the publication of the first title in the series, Column to volume: Formal innovation in Chamba statuary, by Richard Fardon and Christine Stelzig. The series ( ISSN 1748-6262) is co-edited by Richard Fardon, Graham Furniss and Francis Nyamnjoh.  The series was launched with the publication of the first title,...

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Fusions: Masquerades and thought style east of the Niger-Benue confluence, West Africa

Fusions: Masquerades and thought style east of the Niger-Benue confluence, West Africa, by Richard Fardon takes the masks of West Africa’s Upper Benue River region out of the museums and private collections, where many accumulated in the twentieth century, and restores their cultural and social contexts. Buy this book The book argues that Benue masquerades deserve appreciation as the materialized forms taken by the thought styles of...

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