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Adam, Leonhard. PRIMITIVE ART - Africa, Asia, Oceania, Australia, and America.

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Adam, Leonard (introduction). PRIMITIVE ART EXHIBITION - 1943. Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1943. Pp: iv, 26; 215mm x 140mm; 0.09kg. 10 b/w, 12 fig. Foreword, acknowledgements, further reading list. A very good paperback copy with staple binding. Wrp: vg (minor rusting of staples). Stuart Taylor, Fine Printers, Melbourne, 1943. (A brief introduction to tribal art from Aboriginal Australia, Oceania, America, and Africa) (Keywords: Australian Aboriginal, Melanesia, Polynesia, Americas, Africa).
Book Code: D210 AU$20
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Adam, Leonard. PRIMITIVE ART. Africa, Asia, Oceania, Australia, and Americas. BNo. n/a. Revised Edition, 1963 (1940). Pp: 250; 200mm x 145mm; 0.62kg. 70 b/w (40 pl), 50 fig, 3 maps. Foreword, preface, notes, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1963. (This book describes the various forms which the artistic impulse has been taken among primitive peoples - from the Stone Age men who roamed the plains of Europe twenty thousand years ago, to the modern negro inventing new ways of carving the human figure) (Keywords: Tribal art, Yoruba, Baluba, Tallensi, Nilgiri, Batak, Nias, Sepik, Massim, Buka, Maori, Hawaiian, Groote Eylandt, Eskimo, Haida).
Book Code: H028 AU$28
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Detail of wrap of TRIBAL RUGS - A Buyer's Guide
Allane, Lee. TRIBAL RUGS. A Buyer's Guide. BNo. 0-500-27897-0 First Edition, 1996 (pb). Pp: 144; 255mm x 180mm; 0.48kg. 47 col, 23 fig, 1 tab, 7 maps. Introduction, index. A very good paperback copy. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Thames and Hudson, London, 1996. (A guide to the rugs still made by peoples of tribal origin in Asia, the Americas and North Africa) (Keywords: Ethnology, cultural history, weaving, Afghan, Baluchistan, Kurd, Bedouin, Tajik, Cuzco, Navajo).
Book Code: N284 AU$22
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Anderson, Richard L. ART IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES. Insights of cultural anthropologists and art historians. BNo. 0-13-048108-4 First Edition, 1979 (pb) Pp: xviii, 234p; 230mm x 150mm; 0.40kg. 17 b/w, 13 fig. Preface, further reading, bibliography, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (knife-cut in top cover). Prentice-Hall, Inc, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1979. (This book brings together the many insights of cultural anthropologists and art historians, treating art as both a visual and cultural phenomenon. Many photographs, line drawings, and ethnographic case studies illustrate the topics discussed and clarify major points) (Keywords: Definition Primitive Art, Inutility, Aesthetic, Yoruba example).
Book Code: N013 AU$18
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Anton, Ferdinand et al. PRIMITIVE ART - PRE-COLUMBIAN - NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN - AFRICAN - OCEANIC. Ferdinand Anton, Frederick J. Dockstader, Margaret Trowell, and Hans Nevermann, respectively. BNo. 0-8109-1459-X. First American Edition, 1979 (1967). Pp: 526; 280mm x 220mm; 2.50kg. 302 col, 250 b/w, 9 fig, 7 maps, 4 tables. Bibliographical notes, index, photo credits. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 1979. (The extraordinary sophistication of the vanished Pre-Columbian civilisations are discussed; Indian tribal arts are outlined, illustrated and commented upon including Eskimo, Kwakiutl, Iroquois, Hopi, Navajo, Olmec and Mixtec) (Keywords: Ethnology, African, Montol, Songe, Pende, Senufo, Bambara, Oceanic, Melanesia, Sepik, Tami, Sulka, Micronesia, Palau, Polynesia, Marquesas, Hawaiian, Maori).

Book Code: F288 AU$95
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Bandi, Hans-Georg & Henri Breuil et al. THE ART OF THE STONE AGE. Forty Thousand Years of Rock Art. Art of the World Series. BNo. n/a. First Edition (UK), 1961. Pp: 249; 225mm x 175mm; 0.88kg. 61 col, 66 fig, 8 maps. Bibliography, chronology, glossary, index. A very good hardback copy in sleeve box. Cvr: vg; sl: vg. Methuen & Co Limited, London, 1961. (Rock art of different periods and places is covered in separate chapters, these include: Franco-Cantabrian, Spanish Levant, Maghreb and Sahara, South Africa, and Australia) (Keywords: Rock art, regional history, Europe, Africa, Pacific).
Book Code: A020 AU$40
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Benitez-Johannot, P & Jean Paul Barbier. SHIELDS - Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania. From the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum. BNo. 3-7913-2341-5. First Enlish Edition, 2000 (1998). Pp: 256; 310mm x 240mm; 1.78kg. 120 col,130 b/w, 100 fig, 21 maps. Foreword, references, bibliography, index, acknowledgments, credits. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 2000. (The exhibition displayed shields from the musee Barbier-Mueller collection from across Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia. Each of the one-hundred shields is shown with a full-page colour photograph together with a complementary line drawing and, in most cases, archival black and white field-photograph showing the shield type in use by the tribal person) (Keywords: Gascoyne & Murchinson Rivers, Broome, Fitzroy, Kardjarri, Warlpiri, San Cristobal, Santa Isabel, New Georgia, Bougainville).
Book Code: N495 AU$165
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Boas, Franz. PRIMITIVE ART. Analytical description to fundamental traits. BNo. 486-20025-6. Reprint Edition, 1955 (pb) (1927). Pp: 378; 200mm x 135mm; 0.45kg. 15 b/w(pl), 308 fig. Preface, introduction, conclusion, name index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. Dover Publications, Inc, New York, (1955). (It is the definitive analysis of the fundamental traits of primitive art, covering the formal element in art, representative art, symbolism, style, literature, music and the dance. It includes a detailed 115-page study on the art of the North Pacific Coast of North America) (Keywords: Anthropology, art history, Pacific, North West Coast, indian, Tlingit, Kwakiutl, Maori, Africa).
Book Code: K462 AU$20
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