Frans M. Olbrechts 1899-1958. In search of Art in Africa

Frans M. Olbrechts founded the stylistic study of African art. He was among the first to identify the hand to and individual artist. He also laid the basis for the discipline known today as the "antropology of art". But much of the groundbreaking work of this Belgian etnologist and scholar af art was published in Dutch and at an international level has still not been adequately assessed. Now, in fifteen wide-ranging essays by eleven authors, this richly illustrated book explores Olbrechts´s pioneering role in the history of African art studies.