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Adam, Leonard (introduction). PRIMITIVE ART EXHIBITION - 1943. Library, Museums and National

Gallery of Victoria. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1943. Pp: iv, 26; 215mm x 140mm; 0.09kg. 10 b/w, 12 fig.

Foreword, acknowledgements, further reading list. A very good paperback copy with staple binding.

Wrp: vg (minor rusting of staples). Stuart Taylor, Fine Printers, Melbourne, 1943. (A brief introduction

to tribal art from Aboriginal Australia, Oceania, America, and Africa.) (Keywords: Australian Aboriginal,

Melanesia, Polynesia, Americas, Africa.).

Book Code: D209 AU $20


Adam, Leonard. PRIMITIVE ART. Africa, Asia, Oceania, Australia, and Americas. BNo. n/a. Revised

Edition, 1963 (1940). Pp: 250; 200mm x 145mm; 0.62kg. 70 b/w (40 pl), 50 fig, 3 maps. Foreword,

preface, notes, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Cassell & Company Ltd,

London, 1963. (This book describes the various forms which the artistic impulse has been taken

among primitive peoples - from the Stone Age men who roamed the plains of Europe twenty thousand

years ago, to the modern negro inventing new ways of carving the human figure.) (Keywords: Tribal art,

Yoruba, Baluba, Tallensi, Nilgiri, Batak, Nias, Sepik, Massim, Buka, Maori, Hawaiian, Groote

Eylandt, Eskimo, Haida.).

Book Code: H028 AU $28


Anderson, Richard L. ART IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES. Insights of cultural anthropologists and art

historians. BNo. 0-13-048108-4 First Edition, 1979 (pb) Pp: xviii, 234p; 230mm x 150mm; 0.40kg. 17

b/w, 13 fig. Preface, further reading, bibliography, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (knife-cut in

top cover). Prentice-Hall, Inc, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1979. (This book brings together the many insights

of cultural anthropologists and art historians, treating art as both a visual and cultural phenomenon.

Many photographs, line drawings, and ethnographic case studies illustrate the topics discussed and

clarify major points.) (Keywords: Definition Primitive Art, Inutility, Aesthetic, Yoruba example.).

Book Code: N013 AU $18


Anton, Ferdinand et al. PRIMITIVE ART - PRE-COLUMBIAN - NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN - AFRICAN

- OCEANIC. Ferdinand Anton, Frederick J. Dockstader, Margaret Trowell, and Hans Nevermann,

respectively. BNo. 0-8109-1459-X. First American Edition, 1979 (1967) Pp: 526; 280mm x 220mm;

2.50kg. 302 col, 250 b/w, 9 fig, 7 maps, 4 tables. Bibliographical notes, index, photo credits. A very

good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 1979. (The extraordinary

sophistication of the vanished Pre-Columbian civilisations are discussed; Indian tribal arts are outlined,

illustrated and commented upon including Eskimo, Kwakiutl, Iroquois, Hopi, Navajo, Olmec and

Mixtec.) (Keywords: Ethnology, African, Montol, Songe, Pende, Senufo, Bambara, Oceanic,

Melanesia, Sepik, Tami, Sulka, Micronesia, Palau, Polynesia, Marquesas, Hawaiian, Maori.).

Book Code: F288 AU $84


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