For hearth and altar : African ceramics from the Keith Achepohl collection /
By: Berzock, Kathleen Bickford.
Contributor(s): Art Institute of Chicago.
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press : Art Institute of Chicago, 2005Description: 203 p. : col. ill., plates ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300111491 (hbk.); 9780300111491:.Subject(s): Achepohl, Keith. -- Art collections | Achepohl, Keith -- Art collections -- Exhibitions | Pottery, African![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, from December 2005 to February 2006.
African potters craft their ware from terra cotta practising centuries-old techniques and firing them in the open to create vessels of amazing durability. This volume presents the collection of Keith Achepol, which dates from the third to the mid twentieth century and spans the African continent.