Book details

  • Genre:art
  • Sub-genre:African
  • Language:English
  • Pages:222
  • eBook ISBN:9781623096038

The Face of Sunset

African Art of Life, Transformation, and Death

By Arthur Bourgeois and Scott Rodolitz

Overview

The Face of Sunset - For the purposes of this book, we examine the arts of Life, Death and Transformation – from household goods to currency, to mortuary posts, Neolithic grave goods, and mourning textiles, and objects of transformation: initiatory or numinous creations whose primary purpose was to take the individual from one level of being to the next.
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Description

In Central African thought, Sunset is the time of uncertainty and transformation – the time between day and night, black and white. The Color red, in the triadic system is often the transformative color, acting as the bridge between the two worlds; light and darkness, life and death, good and evil. The face of Sunset is the face of transformation; the face of that which changes things from one state to the other. This is a journey when the day ends and the night waits to take its rightful place, Waits until the transforming sunset finishes its magic…
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