African Cosmos: Stellar Arts African Cosmos: Stellar Arts

African Cosmos: Stellar Arts

Selected Essays

Publisher Description

This book accompanies the exhibition African Cosmos, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, which brings together exceptional artworks and scholarly essays to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. The ebook edition presents three essays by exhibition organizer, Christine M. Kreamer, which survey this fresh and fascinating subject. 

  • GENRE
    Arts & Entertainment
    RELEASED
    2012
    27 November
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    110
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and The Monacelli Press
    SELLER
    The Monacelli Press LLC
    SIZE
    97.5
    MB
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