World of Songye
Passions and Collections
ISBN: HB: 9780300267020,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
October 2023
416 pp., 31,7x25,0 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
416 pp., 31,7x25,0 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging.
This lavishly illustrated book brings a new approach to the masterpieces of Songye, a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the C...
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160.00 GBP
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Drumming
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
ISBN: PB: 9780300253986,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
January 2021
128 pp., 33,0x24,1 cm, 80 illus.
128 pp., 33,0x24,1 cm, 80 illus.
"Drumming" is a widely admired dance piece choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960), set to music by the minimalist composer Steve Reich and featuring costumes by Dries Van Noten, that has been performed continuously around the world sin...
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25.00 GBP
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Choreographer's Score
Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok
ISBN: PB: 9780300251296,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
January 2020
248 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 150 black&white illus.
248 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 150 black&white illus.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. Her 1982 debut with Fase immediately attracted the attention of the international dance scene; since then, De Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, have creat...
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22.00 GBP
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Rosas 2007-2017
ISBN: HB: 9780300236873,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
October 2018
256 pp., 33,5x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
256 pp., 33,5x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) is a renowned Belgian choreographer who over nearly four decades has created a legendary and internationally lauded oeuvre, a continuous exploration of the relationship between dance and music that borrows formal...
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45.00 GBP
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NAGA
Awe-Inspiring Beauty
ISBN: HB: 9780300233254,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
April 2018
432 pp., 33,0x25,4 cm, 320 colour illus., 260 black&white illus.
432 pp., 33,0x25,4 cm, 320 colour illus., 260 black&white illus.
Taking an approach that is equal parts anthropological and art historical, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a rare look at the art, artifacts, and culture of the Naga people, an ethnic group spanning several tribes native to northeastern India...
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75.00 GBP
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Maternity
Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780300229158,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
October 2017
400 pp., 29,8x24,1 cm, 500 colour illus.
400 pp., 29,8x24,1 cm, 500 colour illus.
On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metal...
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70.00 GBP
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Sunday
Pierre Droulers Choreographer
ISBN: PB: 9780300230260,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
June 2017
432 pp., 31,0x21,8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
432 pp., 31,0x21,8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
This book celebrates 40 years of work by Pierre Droulers (b. 1951), a pioneer of contemporary dance and choreographer of more than 30 works. A key figure in France and Belgium since the 1970s, Droulers was one of the first students to graduate from t...
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25.00 GBP
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Baule Monkeys
ISBN: HB: 9780300222449,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
August 2016
192 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
192 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...
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50.00 GBP
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Time We Share
Reflecting on and through Performing Arts - One Introduction, Three Acts, and Two Intermezzos
ISBN: PB: 9780300211771,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
June 2015
400 pp., 24,1x17,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
400 pp., 24,1x17,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Marking the 20th anniversary of Belgium's Kunstenfestivaldesarts – a major international arts festival – this ambitious book examines a wide range of critical perspectives on two decades of performing arts. The authors look closely at performing arts...
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40.00 GBP
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In Flanders Fields
The Great War Seen from the Air, 1914-1918
ISBN: HB: 9780300196580,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
December 2013
396 pp., 25,4x29,8 cm, 532 black&white illus.
396 pp., 25,4x29,8 cm, 532 black&white illus.
Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over th...
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45.00 GBP
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