African Art. Its background and traditions. - Hardcover

Wassing, René S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 156852031X ISBN 13: 9781568520315

Publisher: New York (Harry N. Abrams), 1968

Synopsis

4to. xii, 285 pp, list of 24 color plates and 120 b&w illustrations, foreword, introduction, THE AFRICAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT: Bushmen; Negritos or Pygmies; Negros, Bantu; Hamitic Peoples; Nilo-Hamites and Nilotes. MATERIAL ASPECTS OF ART: Art in Its Relationship to Culture. SOCIAL LIFE: SOCIAL POLITICAL ASPECT: Age-Groups, Secret Societies, Legal Power, Rank and State Procedures; Decentralized Political Power; Centralized Political Power. ECONOMICS. RELIGION AND THE SUPERNATURAL. INTELLECTUAL COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY: Play. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS. CATALOGUE. APPENDIX: acknowledgments, bibliography, Map I: African Tribes, Map II: African States, index. Text by Rene S. Wassing. Photographs by Hans Hinz. Translated by Diana Imber. Reprint n.d. [1990s?]. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine.

About this edition

• Publisher: New York (Harry N. Abrams)
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 156852031X
• ISBN 13: 9781568520315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 285