Primitive art & society / edited by Anthony Forge
1973, 1st edition. London ; New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #424342
ISBN: 0192129538
Physical description; xxii, 286 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 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. Costume and clothing Masks. Costume and clothing Nakedness. Indigenous peoples Africa. Indigenous art. Art and society. Africa.
Price: €45.00