NATIVE ARTS OF NORTH AMERICA, AFRICA, AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC.
New York: 1988. xxvii, 313 pages, 16 color and 261 b/w photographs, 93 drawings, 12 maps. Cloth cover. Item #117
Rather than briefly examining the hundreds of artistic traditions in the vast areas of North America, Africa, and the Pacific, the author, refreshingly, studies in depth 36 art styles within these three areas, using methods of art history including stylistic analysis and iconographic interpretation. Among the peoples and cultures studies are: The Dogon, Bamana, Baule, Asante, Benin, Yoruba, Ibo, Nok, Fang, Bamum, and Kula of Africa. The Haida, Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Alaskan Eskimo, Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi of North America, and the art of the Woodlands and Mississippian periods, and the art of the Great Lakes and Plains. New Guinea and Trobriand Islands, New Britain, New Ireland, Solomon Islands, Australian Aboriginal, Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, Hawaii, and Maori of the Pacific.
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