BOOK AFRICAN SCULPTURES BY WILLIAM FAGG ED FERNAND HAZAN 1965 H3299 Book African Sculptures - The Artistic Universes of the Tribes of Black Africa. Fernand Hazan Editor, 1965. Volume in-4. 122 pages, hardcover, yellow cloth cover. (Preface, Introduction, spelling of proper names, bibliography, sources of photographs, list of tribes). 122 plates with facing text. Note that the dust jacket is missing. Some traces on the pagination as well as on the cover. Pages slightly yellowed around the edges. Hanging on the canvas on the top edge. On the flap of the dust jacket: "This work aims to present an aspect of African art too often neglected in numerous books devoted to this subject. It owes its birth to an exhibition: Africa, 100 Tribes, 100 Chefs-d work, organized by the author, in September 1964 (...) The very principle of the exhibition governed the design of the volume: It is a question of offering, for each tribe, a unique, characteristic sculpture. , where the essential formal qualities of his own art emerge. The sculptures reproduced in this book show what exceptional variety of forms gave birth to the 122 tribes that we studied...". William Fagg was curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum, responsible for African Collections. 122 reproductions of works in full-page black and white photography reproduced in rotogravure. Sold as presented. For the condition, please detail the photos. Feel free to zoom in. The photos are an integral part of the description. Dimensions: Height: 28.5 cm Width: 24 cm Thickness: 3.3 cm I remain at your disposal for any questions.
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BOOK AFRICAN SCULPTURES BY WILLIAM FAGG ED FERNAND HAZAN 1965 H3299
BOOK AFRICAN SCULPTURES BY WILLIAM FAGG ED FERNAND HAZAN 1965 H3299 Book African Sculptures - The Artistic Universes of the Tribes of Black Africa. Fernand Hazan Editor, 1965. Volume in-4. 122 pages, hardcover, yellow cloth cover. (Preface, Introduction, spelling of proper names, bibliography, sources of photographs, list of tribes). 122 plates with facing text. Note that the dust jacket is missing. Some traces on the pagination as well as on the cover. Pages slightly yellowed around the edges. Hanging on the canvas on the top edge. On the flap of the dust jacket: "This work aims to present an aspect of African art too often neglected in numerous books devoted to this subject. It owes its birth to an exhibition: Africa, 100 Tribes, 100 Chefs-d work, organized by the author, in September 1964 (...) The very principle of the exhibition governed the design of the volume: It is a question of offering, for each tribe, a unique, characteristic sculpture. , where the essential formal qualities of his own art emerge. The sculptures reproduced in this book show what exceptional variety of forms gave birth to the 122 tribes that we studied...". William Fagg was curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum, responsible for African Collections. 122 reproductions of works in full-page black and white photography reproduced in rotogravure. Sold as presented. For the condition, please detail the photos. Feel free to zoom in. The photos are an integral part of the description. Dimensions: Height: 28.5 cm Width: 24 cm Thickness: 3.3 cm I remain at your disposal for any questions.