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The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection

This book was published on the occasion of the 2005 donation of the Walt Disney-Tishman Collection of African Art to the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, by the Walt Disney World Company (see TRIBAL, winter 2006, pages 78–91).
Passionate collectors with refined taste, the Tishmans began acquiring African sculptures in the 1960s, often in consultation with Hélène and Henri Kamer. Over time, they assembled a collection of rare and unique pieces that ultimately included representative works from almost every part of sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its encyclopedic nature, their selection of works was not made on the basis of representing every ethnic group or of any other particular criteria other than pure aesthetic response. More than 100 extraordinary pieces are superbly rendered in this book in full-page color illustrations, and each is accompanied by informative descriptive text.