Exhibition brochure for an early postwar New York presentation of African sculpture and material culture, held May 3–24, 1947 at J.C. Gallery in New York City. 8vo (5.5” x 8.5”), stapled pictorial wrappers, 6 pages, b/w illustrations. Introductory essay by Paul S. Wingert discussing the formal and aesthetic importance of African sculpture within the history of modern art. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of masks, figures, and ritual objects from West and Central Africa including Baule, Fang, Benin, Ashanti, and Liberian examples. A compact but sophisticated document of the mid-century American reevaluation of African art as fine art rather than ethnographic artifact. An elusive title with only 5 institutional listings in OCLC including Watson Library at the MET and MFA Boston. Some bumping and mild rubbing to extremities, with small closed tears to spine ends.
Exhibition brochure for an early postwar New York presentation of African sculpture and material culture, held May 3–24, 1947 at J.C. Gallery in New York City. 8vo (5.5” x 8.5”), stapled pictorial wrappers, 6 pages, b/w illustrations. Introductory essay by Paul S. Wingert discussing the formal and aesthetic importance of African sculpture within the history of modern art. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of masks, figures, and ritual objects from West and Central Africa including Baule, Fang, Benin, Ashanti, and Liberian examples. A compact but sophisticated document of the mid-century American reevaluation of African art as fine art rather than ethnographic artifact. An elusive title with only 5 institutional listings in OCLC including Watson Library at the MET and MFA Boston. Some bumping and mild rubbing to extremities, with small closed tears to spine ends.
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