Kota

Name: Kota
Brand: Five Continents Editions
SKU: 9788874396078
Price: 5900 KES
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ISBN: 9788874396078

by Louis Perrois

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 8874396074

ISBN-13 9788874396078

Publisher Five Continents Editions

Imprint Five Continents Editions

Country of Manufacture IT

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 3rd, 2012

Print length 168 Pages

Weight 636 grams

Dimensions 24.60 x 16.80 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Art of indigenous peoples

KSh 5,900.00

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An in-depth exploration of the significance of art in the culture of the Kota people of Gabon in equatorial Africa, focusing on form, function and meaning, as well as the interplay of verbal and visual imagery.

The Kota people, who live in Gabon in the coastal area of western equatorial Africa, have developed an astonishing creativity in representations of their ancestors. Dreamlike figures combine a sharp sense of stylized reality tending toward abstraction with an extraordinary and imaginative use of copper, tin, and iron for purposes of decoration. But what seems at first to have been a matter of aesthetic taste has in fact a symbolic function, as most of the decorative motifs and the choice of the technique are linked to the kinship system or religious beliefs. The reliquary figures and initiation masks of the Kota and Mbete served both as aide-mémoires and as instruments useful in arousing the forces of the netherworld among the Gabonese and Congolese in times past. Together with the Fang byeri and other nkisi punu

, they have gradually become the time-honored emblems of a culture paying tribute to ancestral values of the peoples of the African equatorial forest.

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