L’ART NEGRE
Subtitle: Presence Africaine
Author: A. DIOP
Material Type: general or thematic Work
Publisher: Presence Africaine, Paris, 1966. Hardcover cardboard editor in very good condition dust jacket rhodoïd illustrated with overprint of a black and white mask, in-8, size: 19.5 x 22.5 cm
Content: 170 p, 149 ill.. b / w, 26 drawings, biblio., 11 sketches,
Additional information: Reprint special issue of the journal “Presence Africaine” published in 1951 including 19 trials of J. Maquet, M. Griaule, F.-H. Lem, H. Lavachery, Balandier, J.-C. Pauvert, J. Howlett, D.-H. Kahnweiler, W. Fagg, JP Lebeuf, C. Ratton, D. Paulme, Webster Plass, J. Vanden Bossche, R. Lecoq, P. Peissi, P. and A. Mercier Adandé.
State of the work: Very good condition
Description
The genesis of this book introduced by Alioune Diop, founder of Presence Africaine, which contains such articles Jacques Maquet (“Current knowledge of African art“), Marcel Griaule (“The symbols of African art“) Balandier (“the sociological conditions of the black art”), William Fagg (“the art of the Yoruba“), Charles Ratton (“the fetish gold”), Denise Paulme (“About kuduo Ashanti“), Alexander Adandé (“the urgent need for African museums“) merges with the history of African Presence film statues Also Die, directed by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker. This is certainly a reference book decorated with numerous illustrations and photographs. Readers wishing to deepen this topic can also be made to the book Symposium on negro art, published by Presence Africaine in the first World Festival of Black Arts (Dakar, 1966).
Additional information
| Weight | 1010 g |
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| Dimensions | 19.5 × 22.5 cm |
