African Folktales and Sculpture Vintage HC Africa Art Bollingen Pantheon

Description: African Folktales and Sculpture Vintage HC Africa Art Bollingen Pantheon. Paul Rodin, Elinore Marvel James Johnston Sweeney Beautiful impressive vintage book, some signs of wear, age & pre-ownership— see photos for more insight! Dust jacket has tape on ends, see photos! Including vintage Smithsonian Pamphlet that was found in the book, entitled “ The Art of Cameroon” (probably from the mid eighties?), Washington D. C. From inside cover: AFRICAN FOLKTALES AND SCULPTURE Folktales Selected and Edited by Paul Radin with the Collaboration of Elinore Marvel Introduction to the Tales by Paul Radin Sculpture Selected with an introduction by James Johnson Sweeney This volume offers a representative col lection of native African myths and folktales accompanied by selected ex amples of the plastic art stemming from the same culture. In assembling these narratives from the unwritten literature of this area, Dr. Radin has drawn upon the so-called true Negro tribes of west Africa, the Bantu-speaking tribes of central, east, and south Africa, the "half-Hamites" of the Nile headwaters, and the Bushmen and Hottentots of the extreme south and south-west. Dr. Radin emphasizes that theirs is pos sibly the most sophisticated of all abo riginal literatures, though it has not become so well known as the sculpture of native Africa, which during the past fifty years has so strongly influenced the art of the contemporary western world. A glossary of African and other unfamiliar terms is provided. Mr. Sweeney has chosen over 160 photographs of the sculpture of native Africa, the most productive section of which centers in Nigeria. The volume carries an index of the tribal sources of both the folktales and the sculpture. Photographs by Eliot Elisofon, Walker Evans, and others Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer Printed in U.S.A.

Price: 55 USD

Location: Houston, Texas

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