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Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection

Ezra, Kate (1988)

This title is out of print.

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The sculpture of the Dogon people of Mali constitutes one of the richest artistic traditions of West Africa and is a highlight of the Metropolitan Museum's permanent collection of African art. This handsome book features sixty-three of the finest pieces of Dogon art collected by Lester Wunderman, several of which have been donated to the Museum's permanent collection. The text, written by the Museum's assistant curator of primitive art, incorporates the most up-to-date research and thinking on the complex subject of ritual art and on the context in which Dogon sculpture was originally produced and used. Each piece has been especially photographed for this volume and is accompanied by a detailed discussion of its function, style, and significance. Also included are maps, a bibliography, and more than eighty photographs, some of them taken in the field by Eliot Elisofon and Lester Wunderman.

Table of contents

Foreword
Philippe de Montebello

Preface
Lester Wunderman

Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Catalogue

Bibliography

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Authors

Kate Ezra

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Titles by thematic category (52)

African Art, Western Africa

Print Titles

Campbell, Thomas P. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Arabic). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.

Campbell, Thomas P. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (German). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.

Campbell, Thomas P. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Russian). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.

Campbell, Thomas P. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Korean). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.

Chow, Fong, Robert Goldwater, and Alexandrine St. Claire. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 27, no. 9 (May, 1969). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969.

Ezra, Kate. Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988.

Ezra, Kate. Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.

LaGamma, Alisa, and Christine Giuntini. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008.

LaGamma, Alisa. Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.

Ross, Doran H. "The Heraldic Lion in Akan Art: A Study of Motif Assimilation in Southern Ghana." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 16 (1981). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.

Vogel, Susan Mullin. "Art and Politics: A Staff from the Court of Benin, West Africa." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 13 (1978). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978.

Watts, Edith W. A Masterwork of African Art: The Dogon Couple. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.

Online Titles

"African Lost-Wax Casting: Bronze, Copper, and Brass." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

"African Lost-Wax Casting: The Tada Figure." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

"African Rock Art of the Northern Zone." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

"Ife Terracottas (1000–1400 A.D.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

"Igbo-Ukwu (ca. 9th century)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Apley, Alice. "African Lost-Wax Casting." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Biro, Yaëlle. "Bundle of Emotions." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Art of the Asante Kingdom." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Asante Royal Funerary Arts." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Asante Textile Arts." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Exchange of Art and Ideas: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Gold in Asante Courtly Arts." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Idia: The First Queen Mother of Benin." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Origins and Empire: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Political African Women of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Portraits of African Leadership." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Portraits of African Leadership: Living Rulers." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Portraits of African Leadership: Memorials." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Portraits of African Leadership: Royal Ancestors." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "The Bamana Ségou State." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Ways of Recording African History." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "African Rock Art: Tassili-n-Ajjer (?8000 B.C.–?)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Art and the Fulani/Fulbe People." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Ife (from ca. 6th century)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Ife Pre-Pavement and Pavement Era (800–1000 A.D.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Inland Niger Delta." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Empires of the Western Sudan." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana Empire." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Empires of the Western Sudan: Mali Empire." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Fulani/Fulbe People ." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th–14th century)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

LaGamma, Alisa. "Prime of Life." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.

Ross, Emma George. "African Christianity in Kongo." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Ross, Emma George. "Afro-Portuguese Ivories." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Ross, Emma George. "Benin Chronology." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Ross, Emma George. "The Age of Iron in West Africa." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Ross, Emma George. "The Portuguese in Africa, 1415–1600 ." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Titles by author (5)

Kate Ezra

Print Titles

Ezra, Kate. African Ivories. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984.

Ezra, Kate. Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988.

Ezra, Kate. Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introductions by Douglas Newton, Julie Jones, and Kate Ezra. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 12, The Pacific Islands, Africa, and the Americas. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989.

Vogel, Susan, ed., with Kate Ezra. For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.