Art of Africa Book

	Preface	7
	Introduction	19
Pt. 1	Comparative Aesthetics and African Sculpture	27
I	The "Pilot Look"	27
	Misreadings	29
	Terms, Meanings, Concepts	40
II	The Naturalist Encumbrance	105
	Representation of Proportions and the Proportions of Representation	109
	Representation of Space and the Space of Representation	118
	The Representation of the Individual	145
	Expression and the Representation of Expression	156
III	The Functionalist Approach	188
	Forms and Functions	188
	Function and Representation	194
	Presence and Power	237
	Functionalism and Artistic Production	248
IV	The Pleasure of Seeing	275
	Orientation: The Ethnologist and the Aesthete	275
	In Search of an African Aesthetics	276
	Orientations in Comparative Aesthetics	287
	Forms	315
	Documents	359
Pt. 2	African Art: The Golden Age	360
	The Western Sudan and the Coast of Guinea	360
	Archeology and History in Nigeria	396
	Central Sudan, the Cross River, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Grassland of Cameroon	401
	Central Africa	419
	Eastern and Southern Africa, Madagascar	465
	An Initiatory Passage	485
	The Principal Ethnic Groups	497
	Map	498-99
	Glossary	596
	Bibliography	598
	Index	604
	Acknowledgements	618
	Photograph Credits	619