Primitive art & society / edited by Anthony Forge
1973, 1st Edition. London; New York: Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #355184
ISBN: 0192129538
Physical description: xxii, 286 pages: illustrations, charts; 26 cm. Contents:
Art history and anthropology: some comparisons of methodology / Robert Goldwater -- Adornment and nudity in tropical Africa / Denise Paulme -- Tikopia art and society / Raymond Firth -- Kilenge big man art / Philip Dark -- Art and history in Ghana / Roy Sieber -- Tapa techniques and tapa patterns in Polynesia: a regional differentiation / Simon Kooijman -- The role of the individual Indian artist / Frederick J. Dockstader -- Mask makers and myth in western Liberia / Warren L. d'Azevedo -- In search of meaning in African art / William Fagg -- Style and meaning in Sepik art / Anthony Forge -- The spatial presentation of cosmic order in Walbiri iconography / Nancy D. Munn -- Levels of communication and problems of taboo in the appreciation of primitive art / Edmund Leach -- Style, grace, and information in primitive art / Gregory Bateson -- Talking about art and primitive society / W.T. Jones. Subjects: Indigenous art; Congresses. Art and society; Congresses. Art, Primitive; Congresses.
Price: €45.00