The so-called Djenne statuary emerged circa A.D. 700 and
flourished until 1750. The terracotta statues were manufactured by
various groups inhabiting the Inland Niger Delta region of
present-day Mali, centered around the ancient urban center of
Djenne-Jeno. These terracotta sculptures, more than 300 of which
are published in this book for the first time, express a remarkable
range of physical conditions and human emotions, providing the
largest corpus of ancient sacred gestures of any civilization in
Sub-Saharan Africa.
"Djenne-Jeno "investigates this important and mainly unpublished
corpus of terracotta statuary of one of the Mande art styles of
West Africa, and traces potential connections between regions in
West Africa whose artistic styles were previously thought to have
developed independently. Generously illustrated with hundreds of
color images, this book represents a significant contribution to
the study of an art form virtually unknown until a few decades
ago.
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