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            Eberhard Fischer. Dan Artists—The Sculptors Tame, Si, Tompieme and Sõn: Their Personalities and Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 144 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs. Bibliography. Epilogue. Publications on Dan Art and Culture by Hans Himmelheber and Eberhard Fischer. DVD (“Dan Wood Carvers and Mask Performers, Liberia, 1960”). Cloth. $49.00. ISBN: 978-3858817594. - 
            Eberhard Fischer and Lorenz Homberger, eds. African Masters: Art from the Ivory Coast. Zurich: Museum Rietberg/Scheidegger & Spiess, 2014. 240 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs. Bibliography. Cloth. $39.00. ISBN: 978-3858817617.

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