Radiance from the waters : ideals of feminine beauty in Mende art
- Title
- Radiance from the waters : ideals of feminine beauty in Mende art / Sylvia Ardyn Boone ; photographs by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and Rebecca Busselle.
- Published by
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1986], ©1986.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 281 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
- Series statement
- Yale publications in the history of art ; 34
- Uniform title
- Yale publications in the history of art ; 34.
- Subject
- Femmes > Dans l'art
- Arts
- Sande Society
- Schoonheidsideaal
- Art Mende (peuple d'Afrique)
- Kunst
- Beauté féminine (esthétique) > Sierra Leone
- Women > Beauty expounded by > Mende visual arts
- Mende (volk)
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- Beauté corporelle
- Femmes > Dans l'art > Sierra Leone
- Arts mendé
- Esthétique > Afrique
- Vrouwen
- Beauté féminine (Esthétique)
- Masques > Afrique
- Sande (Société)
- Femmes mendé
- Masques mendé
- Arts, Mende
- Sierra Leone
- Arts > Sierra Leone
- Mendé (peuple d'Afrique)
- Arts primitifs > Sierra Leone
- Contents
- Mende history and culture : a brief overview -- The Sande Society -- Kpanguima : the world of beauty that Sande makes -- Physical and metaphysical aspects of Mende feminine beauty -- Sowo : the good made visible.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1979) under title: Sowo art in Sierra Leone.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.