Through some seventy-five works from American private collections and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, this exhibition celebrates the stunning formal diversity and deep cultural meanings of Southern Africa’s artistic heritage. Despite having enjoyed a degree of growing interest and appreciation over the past three decades, the art of traditional Southern African societies has long been largely neglected. The aesthetic merits of objects stemming from this part of the African continent are still largely underrated within the field of African art, often being described as “craft” rather than “art.”
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