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Detail of wrap of Primal Art (geoffroy1p 150/209)
Geoffroy-Schneiter, Berenice. PRIMAL ARTS. Africa, Oceania and the Southeast Asian Islands. BNo. 0-500-28258-7. First Edition (UK), 2000 (pb). Pp: 400; 210mm x 150mm; 1.03kg. num col & b/w, 3 maps. Preface, introduction, selected bibliography, acknowledgments, photo credits, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 2000. (The book is divided into three broad geographical areas - Africa, Oceania and the Southeast Asian islands - which explore in thorough detail the history and cultural significance of each region's art. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs of the best pieces held in the world's greatest museums. The book also carries previously unpublished documentary illustrations - prints, photographs and drawings - of the art 'in action') (Keywords: Ethnology, World, Africa, Oceania, Southeast Asia, primal, indigenous).
Book Code: R043 AU$27
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Detail of wrap of 'Art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas from the Museum of Primitive Art'. (goldwater4p 150/192 GOLD04)
Goldwater, Newton, Northern & Jones. ART OF OCEANIA, AFRICA, AND THE AMERICAS. From the Museum of Primitive Art. New York. BNo. 73-77259. First Edition, 1969 (pb). Pp: (x), (264); 220mm x 195mm; 0.64kg. 16 col, over 300 b/w, 12 maps. Foreword, preface, introduction. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (wear on wrp; signature on fep). The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1969. (This catalogue was prepared for an exhibition at The Museum of Primitive Art in 1969. The works of art, over 660 of them with descriptions, were gathered together by Nelson A. Rockefeller) (Keywords: Ethnology, Africa, Oceania, Americas).
Book Code: E402 AU$44
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Goldwater, Robert & Douglas Newton. THE JOHN AND DOMINIQUE de MENIL COLLECTION. The Museum of Primitive Art, New York. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1962. Pp: (64); 280mm x 215mm; 0.62kg. 71 b/w. Foreword, introduction. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1962. (This catalogue presents artefacts from various parts of the world) (Keywords: Ethnology, Africa, Polynesia, Australia, North America, Mexico, South America, Old World, Asia).
Book Code: E382 AU$40
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Goldwater, Robert & Douglas Newton. THE RAYMOND WIELGUS COLLECTION. The Museum of Primitive Art, New York. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1960 (pb). Pp: 31; 280mm x 215mm; 0.15kg. 36 b/w. Foreword, introduction. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (water stain across lower margin of pages). The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1960. (This catalogue presents artefacts from major regions of the world and which have been selected by Raymond Wielgus for their aesthetic qualities) (Keywords: Ethnology, Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania, New Guinea, Marquesas, Tlingit, Nigeria, Zuni, Peru).
Book Code: N568 SOLD - now out of stock AU$30
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Goldwater, Robert & Lee Boltin. THE LIPCHITZ COLLECTION. The Museum of Primitive Art, New York. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1960 (pb). Pp: (ii), 32; 280mm x 215mm; 0.18kg. 40 b/w. Foreword, introduction. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (penned name on fep). The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1960. (This catalogue presents artefacts from various parts of the world including Africa, Oceania, North America, Middle America, and South America) (Keywords: Ethnology, Americas, Africa, Oceania, Toma, Melanesia).
Book Code: E441 AU$30
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Greub, Suzanne. EXPRESSIONS OF BELIEF - Masterpieces of African, Oceanic and Indonesian Art. From the Museum Voor Volkenkunde Rotterdam. BNo. 0-8478-0959-5. First Edition, 1988. Pp: 248; 305mm x 230mm; 1.82kg. 106 col, 23 b/w, 3 map. Exhibition itinerary, contributors, foreword, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Rizzoli International Publications Inc, New York, 1988. (This book presents objects from one of the pretigious ethnological museums in Europe. The pieces come from the major tribal art areas of Africa (43), Oceania (28), and Southeast Asia (31)) (Keywords: Ethnology, Africa, Southeast Asia, Oceania, Nkisi, Congo, Agwe Chaka, Cameroon, Melanesia, New Ireland, Malanggan, Kani, Batak, Kenyah, Kalimantan).
Book Code: D306 AU$120
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Detail of wrap - ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND ANTHROPOLOGY - The British School 1922-1972 (kuper5ap 140/228 KUPE5)
Kuper, Adam. ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND ANTHROPOLOGY - The British School 1922-1972. BNo. 0-7139-0439-9. First Edition, 1973. Pp: 256; 220mm x 135mm; 0.55kg. no illus. Preface, notes, name index, subject index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd, London, 1973. (The author writes about a distincy period for social anthropology in Britain when Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown laid the foundations. A whole chapter is devoted to Malinowski using extracts from his field diaries during studies on the Trobriand Islands) (Keywords: Anthropology, anthropologists, Africa, Oceania, Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown).
Book Code: F086 AU$20
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Lissner, Ivar. MAN, GOD AND MAGIC. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1961. Pp: 344; 230mm x 155mm; 0.91kg. 118 b/w, 5 fig, 7 maps. Bibliography, sources of illustrations, index. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (wear on dw; margin mark on one page). Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1961. (This book surveys what is known of the culture and especially the religious beliefs and practices of pre-historic man and compares this with the cultural practices and religious beliefs of still existent primitive peoples) (Keywords: Cultural history, social anthropology, Americas, prehistoric Europe, Asia, Gilyak).
Book Code: F260 AU$20
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Detail of wrap of 'ETHNIC SCULPTURE' (mcleod1ap 165/165 MCLE1)
McLeod, Malcolm & John Mack. ETHNIC SCULPTURE. Published for the Trustees of the British Museum. BNo. 0-7141-2028-6. First Edition, 1985 (pb). Pp: 72; 215mm x 215mm; 0.28kg. 36 col, 50 b/w & fig, 1 map. Preface, further reading, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. British Museum Publications, London, 1985. (This book covers the vast field of sculpture produced by traditional societies of the non-Western world. This work examines the thinking behind the creation and the skills and imaginative powers of the creator) (Keywords: Ethnology, Africa, Oceania, Americas, masks, sculptures).
Book Code: J013 AU$25
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Detail of wrap - THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ART (morphy08p 150/214 MORP08)
Morphy, Howard & Morgan Perkins (editors). THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ART. A Reader. BNo.978-1-4051-0562-0. First Edition, 2006 (pb). Pp: x, 566; 245mm x 170mm; 1.00kg. num b/w & fig. Acknowledgments, about the editors, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Blackwell Publishing, Melbourne, 2006. (This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. The book advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art and provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times) (Keywords: Art anthropology, primitive, Africa, Americas, Asia, Australia, Oceania, Tikopea, Abelam, Yoruba, Nilotes, Yolngu, Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Maori, South American Rain Forest, New Guinea Highlands).
Book Code: V319 AU$54
Note: Contributors and essays are:
(x) Perkins, Morgan & Howard Morphy - Introduction: The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice; (1) Boas, Frank - Primitive Art; (2) Levi-Strauss, Claude - Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America; (3) Fagg, William - Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art; (4) Bateson, Gregory - Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art; (5) Firth, Raymond - Tikopia Art and Society; (6) Forge, Anthony - The Abelam Artist; (7) Rubin, William - Modernist Primitivism : An Introduction; (8) Danto, Arthur C. - Defective Affinities: “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art; (9) Clifford, James - Histories of the Tribal and the Modern; (10) Price, Sally - A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places; (11) Clunas, Craig - Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art; (12) Vogel, Susan - Introduction to Art/Artifact : African Art in Anthropology Collections; (13) Gell, Alfred - Vogel's Net : Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps; (14) Thompson, Robert Farris - Yoruba Artistic Criticism; (15) Lechtman, Heather - Style in Technology : Some Early Thoughts; (16) Coote, Jeremy - "Marvels of Everyday Vision" : The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes; (17) Morphy, Howard - From Dull to Brilliant : The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power among the Yolngu; (18) Munn, Nancy D. - Visual Categories : An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems; (19) Rosman, Abraham and Paula G. Rubel - Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual; (20) Jonaitis, Aldona - Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Shaman's Masks; (21) Guss, David M. - All Things Made - To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest; (22) O'Hanlon, Michael - Modernity and the "Graphicalization" of Meaning: New Guinea Highlands Shield Design in Historical Perspective; (23) Graburn, Nelson H.H. - Arts of the Fourth World - Introduction to Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions; (24) Phillips, Ruth B. - The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the "Strictly Commercial"; (25) Steiner, Christopher B. - The Art of the Trade: The Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market; (26) Thomas, Nicholas - A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art; (27) Myers, Fred - Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings; (28) Bennett, Gordon - Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artists Approach; (29) Townsend-Gault, Charlotte - Kinds of Knowing; (30) Rickard, Jolene - Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird that Carries Language Back to Another;
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