Item #10493 Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention. Frederick Lamp.
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
"The Baga never visit their neighbors, neither have they occasion to do so, for their own country produces abundance of every thing requisite for the subsistence of any really temperate man."

Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention

New York and Munich: The Museum for African Art and Prestel Verlag, 1996. Very Good / Very Good. Item #10493
ISBN: 3791317233

New York and Munich: The Museum for African Art and Prestel Verlag, 1996. First Edition. Tall Quarto (31x24x2.5cm); 267pp, including glossary and bibliography. A pristine invitation card for the Baltimore opening of the Baga show, in its envelope, is laid in.

Photographic dustjacket. Volume in off-white cloth with green stamping on spine and front panel. Faint rubbing to jacket along top edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Much more than a survey of remarkable West African objects, the volume traces Baga art through the lens of ancient and recent migrations, ricocheting 19th- and 20th-century regime changes, and the Baga will to self- and cultural-preservation affecting every aspect of their art, culture, and society.

This is the richly augmented catalog accompanying the Baga exhibition at the Museum for African Art in NYC from 4 October 1996 to 5 January 1997, and traveling afterward to Baltimore.

Price: $100.00