书名：Kuyu / 库尤
作者：Anne-Marie Bénézech
出版社：Five Continents Editions，2021年
装帧：平装，152页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 16.5*24.0 cm
ISBN：978-88-7439-915-4

简介

库尤人居住在刚果（布）北部、刚果河沿岸，属于赤道非洲地区，受伊斯兰教和西方殖民主义的影响较小。库尤艺术大致可分为三种风格，前两种风格与库尤族群严格相关，其遗存实例最少；第三种风格雕塑作品最为丰富，融合了库尤和姆博希（Mbochi）的元素。其中包含大量小雕像，尤其是顶端雕刻有人头像的木棍（近作为彩色），称为Kebe-Kebe，用于同名舞蹈。这种仪式表演至今仍保持着其原始功能，即表达库尤人的宇宙观。本书是“Visions of Africa”系列中的一册。

The Kuyu are an ethnic group who live in northern Congo-Brazzaville, on the banks of the River Congo, in a part of Equatorial Africa that has remained only marginally influenced by Moslem encroachment and Western colonialism. Kuyu art can be broadly broken down into three styles, the first two — of which there are the fewest examples — are strictly associated with the Kuyu ethnic group, while the third style, which has the largest sculptural component, includes both Kuyu and Mbochi pieces. Among these are a number of statuettes and especially wooden clubs topped with a human head (the most recent being polychrome), known as Kebe-Kebe, which were used in the dance by the same name. This ritual performance has remained faithful to its original function of giving physical expression to the Kuyu cosmogony.