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Continuity and Innovation in the Ethiopian illustrated manuscripts: the case of Geometric Art
Mazzei, Lorenza
2017
Abstract
In the history of the traditional Ethiopian art one recognizes a process of “transition” of formal elements from the African substrate into the Christian imagery. Through the different stylistic phases and schools a geometric solution recurs as the result of a formal abstraction process, through which the art moves towards the archetypal to express the divine in its powerful distance from reality.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Lorenza Mazzei, "Continuity and Innovation in the Ethiopian illustrated manuscripts: the case of Geometric Art", in: "Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored. Proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop Trieste, May 25-26, 2016", Ilaria Micheli (ed.), Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 33-45
Languages
en
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