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January 8, 2003
Monica Blackmun Visonà, Robin Poyner, Herbert M. Cole, Michael D. Harris, Rowland Abiodun, and Suzanne Preston Blier A History of Art in Africa Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall in association with Harry N. Abrams, 2000. 544 pp.; 129 color ills.; 600 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (0810934485)
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A History of Art in Africa is the product of two decades of research and writing by a team of scholars who represent Africanist art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and other teachers of African visual culture in the United States. Led by Monica Visonà and Robin Poynor, the team includes Herbert M. Cole and Michael D. Harris. The book is intended to be a general undergraduate text on African art and so fills a gap that...