The face of sunset : African art of life, transformation, and death : featuring works from American private collections

In Central African thought, Sunset is the time of uncertainty and transformation – the time between day and night, black and white. The Color red, in the triadic system is often the transformative color, acting as the bridge between the two worlds; light and darkness, life and death, good and evil. The face of Sunset is the face of transformation; the face of that which changes things from one state to the other. This is a journey when the day ends and the night waits to take its rightful place, Waits until the transforming sunset finishes its magic... The Face of Sunset - For the purposes of this book, we examine the arts of Life, Death and Transformation - from household goods to currency, to mortuary posts, Neolithic grave goods, and mourning textiles, and objects of transformation: initiatory or numinous creations whose primary purpose was to take the individual from one level of being to the