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Discover the ways in which artistic and ritual modifications made to African sculptures reveal the spiritual practices, cultural values, and innovations of their owners and users
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Events
Lecture: Material Matters in African Art
Thu, Jul 21, 2016 from 5:30 – 7:00pm UTC
McCormick 101
Christa Clarke, a specialist in historical and contemporary African art from the Newark Museum, will offer a history of Western responses to the surfaces of African sculpture and will explore the symbolic, ritual, and aesthetic meanings of materials for works on view in the special exhibition Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton.
A reception at the Princeton University Art Museum will follow.
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McCormick Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, US
