Assouline began with an idea and a belief: the first, a notion that beauty, perfected, has meaning that is capable of transforming our lives; and the second, that a bookartfully crafted and highly considered in its visual contentcan open our eyes and minds. With our first book, La Colombe d’Or, we sought to convey the experience of a small hotel in the south of France, a tiny, sublime world of art, history, luxury, and inspiration unto itself. Over time, that world has been expanded to create a universe that is anchored by our books but no longer limited to paper and pages.

African Forms: Art and Rituals

Arts & Photography

Meyer, Laure

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Assouline Publishing

Centinaia di illustrazioni a colori. Testo in francese . 4to pp. 224 Brossura (wrappers) Ottimo (Fine)

Afrique noire: Masques, sculptures, bijoux (French Edition)

History & Criticism

Editions P. Terrail

More than 170 colour illustrations.

Black Africa Masks Sculpture Jewelry

Travel

Terrail

Masks, pottery, bronze, ivory, gold, statues of ancestors, reliquaries, and jewelry all express the influence of myths on the daily life and inventive genius of more than 60 ethnic groups. This book covers each subject in turn, is magnificently illustrated in color, and examines the entire range of black African art from aesthetic and ethnological points of view.

Black Africa: Masks Sculpture Jewelry

Humor & Entertainment

A celebration of the great era of English landscape painting, which includes reproductions of masterpieces by famous artists such as Stubbs, Gainsborough and Turner, along with a text looking at their lives and work. Stimulated at first by the influence of Dutch and Flemish artists like VanDyke and of the Italians such as Canaletto, the art of the English landscape came into its own in the 18th century with Gainsborough, Alexander Cozens and Stubbs, later achieving its full flowering with Turner, Constable and Whistler before turning into the imaginary world of Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. From idealized visions to hunting scenes, from Pre-Raphaelites to the postimpressionists, from romantic watercolors to marine painting, this comprehensive work turns the spotlight on more than 120 masterpieces

Masters of English Landscape

The beautiful African objects presented in this book bear witness to the diverse esthetic and technical accomplishments of more than 100 African tribes, revealing the innate beauty of simple objects such as bowls, baskets, and masks, plus elaborate examples of weaponry, textiles, beadwork, and jewelry. 170 color illustrations.

Art and Craft in Africa: Everyday Life Ritual Court Art

Traditional African art is profoundly influenced by many factors: religion and magic; the belief in omnipresent occult forces; ancestor worship involving sacrifices; funeral rites; initiation ceremonies; masked dances for all important life events; the power of secret societies; the chief's desire for prestige; the love of jewelry and the pursuit of beauty in the most lowly of objects. This book is a major and complete work which reveals and explains the secrets and origins of Black African art.

Black Africa: Masks, Sculputres, Jewels

This book pays tribute to the steadily increasing interest in African artistic expressions. The symbolic and spiritual aspects of African objects and their use form the great deal of the pre-sent volume. This book is a guide to decoding symbols and discovering their meaning.

Art and Craft in Africa

Black Africa Masks, Sculpture and Jewelry

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