The great and spontaneous response of ethnologists, gallery owners and collectors to the first volume of the monograph series "Art from Black Africa" makes it clear how much this new approach to an examination of this art was welcomed.

Professor Dr. Klaus Schneider, Director of the Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne: "No lover of African art will put this book down before reading the last page. As the director of a museum of ethnology, I must pay the greatest respect to this outstanding work. The carefully researched, informative and, as always with the author, sympathetically personal text serves above all the many different interests of collectors and lovers of this art. The quality of the numerous and excellently illustrated objects from unknown private collections enriches the spectrum of important museum pieces in a lasting way. The numerous notes on the subject matter make this book a reference work of the first order."