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December 01 2007
A Masterwork that Sheds Tears … and Light: A Complementary Study of a Fang Ancestral Head
Roland Kaehr,
Roland Kaehr
Roland Kaehr is a Swiss curator, “docteur ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines”, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He was deputy curator for the collections of Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel for forty years.
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Louis Perrois,
Louis Perrois
Louis Perrois is a French anthropologist and art historian, specializing in the cultures of Atlantic Equatorial Africa. Formerly director of Museum of Arts and Traditions of Gabon in Libreville, he conducted research in Gabon and Cameroon (1965–1984) and has published many books and catalogues on the arts and history of these countries.
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Marc Ghysels
Marc Ghysels
Marc Ghysels has a degree in medicine, with a specialization in radiology. He comes from a Belgian family of artists and collectors and has set up a business in Brussels conducting radiological and tomodensitometric appraisals of artworks.
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Roland Kaehr
Roland Kaehr is a Swiss curator, “docteur ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines”, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He was deputy curator for the collections of Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel for forty years.
Louis Perrois
Louis Perrois is a French anthropologist and art historian, specializing in the cultures of Atlantic Equatorial Africa. Formerly director of Museum of Arts and Traditions of Gabon in Libreville, he conducted research in Gabon and Cameroon (1965–1984) and has published many books and catalogues on the arts and history of these countries.
Marc Ghysels
Marc Ghysels has a degree in medicine, with a specialization in radiology. He comes from a Belgian family of artists and collectors and has set up a business in Brussels conducting radiological and tomodensitometric appraisals of artworks.
Online Issn: 1937-2108
Print Issn: 0001-9933
© 2007 by the Regents of the University of California.
2007
African Arts (2007) 40 (4): 44–57.
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Roland Kaehr, Louis Perrois, Marc Ghysels; A Masterwork that Sheds Tears … and Light: A Complementary Study of a Fang Ancestral Head. African Arts 2007; 40 (4): 44–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2007.40.4.44
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