ART OF AFRICA.
Paris, 1988; New York: 1993 (1st English language ed.). 619 pages, 248 large color p hotographs, 815 b/w photographs, 8maps. Cloth cover., small folio size. Item #272
The biggest and most handsome survey book on African art published in decades, this stunning, folio-size volume has an information-filled text, and is packed with photographs of masterpieces from museums and private collections in Europe and the U.S., most never before published. The 248 dazzling color photographs, most of which are full-page, may constitute, by themselves, the largest, finest group of color photogrpahs of African art to appear in a single volume added to these great illustrations are in-depth discussioons of more than 100 art-producing ethnic groups and a lengthy, provocative essays on "Comparative Aesthetics and African Sculpture"
Price: $575.00