本书从芝加哥艺术学院的藏品中选出了75件以上的非洲传统艺术作品，包括非洲大陆各地区的各种媒介的物品，着实令人惊叹。由著名艺术史学家和人类学家撰写的文章和目录条目除了充实原始背景外，还详细介绍了作品本身的意义和材料。这些专家还强调了起源地和收藏历史对于理解我们今天如何看待这些物品的重要性。芝加哥艺术学院将传统非洲艺术作为美国最古老和最多样化的艺术形式进行收藏，本书赞美了这一举措，它以新颖的和引人入胜的方式审视了当前对非洲艺术的研究以及未来学术研究的潜力。

A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago’s extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa

Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection, this stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by leading art historians and anthropologists attend closely to the meanings and materials of the works themselves in addition to fleshing out original contexts. These experts also underscore the ways in which provenance and collection history are important to understanding how we view such objects today. Celebrating the Art Institute’s collection of traditional African art as one of the oldest and most diverse in the United States, this is a fresh and engaging look at current research into the arts of Africa as well as the potential of future scholarship.