Boyer, Alain-Michel. Comment regarder les arts d’Afrique [How to Look at Arts from Africa]. Paris: Hazan, 2017.

Dealing with African art, the black continent scale in its variety and specificities. This book invites the reader to a journey in four steps. In the first section, by tracing out the main periods of African civilizations, we discover that these arts sometimes go back millennia. Secondly, this book identifies some formal and stylistic principles based on leading artforms such as statuettes or masks. In the third section, emphasis is put on so-called ‘minor’ arts that created the conditions of ‘major’ art forms such as cutlery, jewellery, etc. Finally, the last section covers an area from the Sahara to South Africa to illustrate how diverse African creation is and the countless solutions which are each time unexpected.

[Source: Hazan publishing house, adapted and translated from French].