Автор: Margaret Trowell and Hans Nevermann
Название: African and Oceanic Art
Издательство: Harry N. Abrams
Год: 1968
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 270
Язык: English
Размер: 26.3 MB

Since earliest explorations of the African continent and of the scattered islands of the South Pacific, the European mind has been fascinated by the ritual figures and exotic carved images brought back as gifts or booty by generations of travelers and colonizers. Such objects have long been prized for their strange appeal, but it was not until the beginning of the 19th century that there first arose a true appreciation of their aesthetic--as opposed to ethnographical--value and quality. The "discovery" of African form by the Cubists and of the obsessive art of Oceania by the Expressionists has led to an entirely new attitude in the appreciation of these mistakenly designated "primitive" arts.