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Book reviews ___________________________________________________________________________________ Editor's note: Reviews in ABPR express the opinion of individual reviewers and do not necessarily, reflect the views of either the ABPR Editor or the ABPR Book Review Editor. Full bibliographic details, prices/overseas prices, and ISBNs are provided, where available. ABPR Book Review Editor Gary Gorman School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Names of distributors outside Africa (where available) are given in square brackets e.g. [African Books Collective], for full address details please refer to the ABPR Directory of Publishers at the beginning of the Bibliographic Index. __________________________________________________________________________________________ African Art Doreen Sibanda, ed. Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture: A Retrospective, 19572004. Harare: Weaver Press with Embassy of France Zimbabwe, 2004. 148 pp. £19.95 pap. ISBN 1779220308 [African Books Collective] For five decades stone sculpture has dominated the contemporary art scene in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, and the movement seems to be losing no momentum. To document and illustrate this phenomenon, the catalogue Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture: A Retrospective, 1957-2004 presents the progression by decades beginning in the 1950s. There has indeed been an evolution in the form, surface treatment and subject matter of Zimbabwe stone sculpture, contrary to the conventional wisdom that it is all repetitious and derivative http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The African Book Publishing Record de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2006 K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, München
ISSN
0306-0322
DOI
10.1515/ABPR.2006.127
Publisher site
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Abstract

___________________________________________________________________________________ Editor's note: Reviews in ABPR express the opinion of individual reviewers and do not necessarily, reflect the views of either the ABPR Editor or the ABPR Book Review Editor. Full bibliographic details, prices/overseas prices, and ISBNs are provided, where available. ABPR Book Review Editor Gary Gorman School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Names of distributors outside Africa (where available) are given in square brackets e.g. [African Books Collective], for full address details please refer to the ABPR Directory of Publishers at the beginning of the Bibliographic Index. __________________________________________________________________________________________ African Art Doreen Sibanda, ed. Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture: A Retrospective, 19572004. Harare: Weaver Press with Embassy of France Zimbabwe, 2004. 148 pp. £19.95 pap. ISBN 1779220308 [African Books Collective] For five decades stone sculpture has dominated the contemporary art scene in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, and the movement seems to be losing no momentum. To document and illustrate this phenomenon, the catalogue Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture: A Retrospective, 1957-2004 presents the progression by decades beginning in the 1950s. There has indeed been an evolution in the form, surface treatment and subject matter of Zimbabwe stone sculpture, contrary to the conventional wisdom that it is all repetitious and derivative

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The African Book Publishing Recordde Gruyter

Published: Jun 23, 2006

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