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Lrg Grp: Books on Africa and African Art

Estimate: $100 - $200

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Group of 32 books on Africa and African art. Includes the following titles:

Jacqueline Delange (French, 1923-1991), Carol F. Jopling (American, 1916-2000), "The Art and Peoples of Black Africa", New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974.

Richard L. Anderson, "Art in Primitive Societies", Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979.

Daniel Biebuyck (American, 1925-2019), "Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art", Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1973.

William Fagg (English, 1914-1992), "African Tribal Images", Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.

Margaret Plass (American, 1896-1990), "African Tribal Sculpture", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The University Museum,1956.

Jean Laude (French, 1922-1984), Jean Decock, "The Arts of Black Africa", Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1973.

Paul S. Wingert (American, 1900-1974), "Primitive Art: Its Traditions and Styles", New York, New York: Meridian Books, 1962.

Frank WIllett, "African Art", Oxford University Press, 1971.

Claude Roy, EH. S. Seldon, "The Art of the Savages", New York, New York: Golden Griffin Books, 1958.

William Fagg (English, 1914-1992), Margaret Plass, "African Sculpture", New York, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1964.

Ekpo Eyo (Nigerian, b. 1931), Frank Willett, "Treasures of Ancient Nigeria", New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1980.

"Primitive Art from Chicago Collections", The Art Institute of Chicago.

James I. Clark, "Africa South of the Sahara", Evanston, Illinois: McDougal, Littel & Company, 1976.

Patricia Darish, Roy Sieber (American, 1923-2001), Douglas Newton, Michael D. Coe (American, 1929-2019), "African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian Art in the Indiana University Art Museum", Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Christopher D. Roy (American, 1947-2019), "Art and Life in Africa: Selections from the Stanley Collection", Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1987.

Joseph Cornet (Belgian, 1919-2004), "A Survey of Zairian Art: The Bronson Collection", Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1978.

(Two copies) Douglas Newton, André Malraux (French, 1901-1975), Nelson A. Rockefeller (American, 1908-1979), "Masterpieces of Primitive Art: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection", New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.

Martha G. Anderson (American, b. 1948), Christine Mullen Kreamer, Enid Schildkrout, "Wild Spirits Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness", New York, New York: Museum for African Art, 1989.

Daryll Forde (British, 1902-1973), African Worlds: Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African Peoples", London, England: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Harold D. Gunn (American, 1918-1989), Carleton S. Coon (American, 1904-1981), "A Handbook of the African Collection of the Commercial Museum Philadelphia", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Commercial Museum.

Frank Willett, "African Art", New York, New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1973.

Eliot Elisofon (American, 1911-1973), William Fagg (English, 1914-1992), "The Sculpture of Africa", New York, New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978.

Henry John Drewal , John Pemberton III (1928-2016), Rowland Abiodun (African, b. 1941), Allen Wardwell (American, 1935-1999), "Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought", New York, New York: Center for African Art in Association with H.N. Abrams, 1989.

Tepilit Ole Saitoti (African, 1945 b. 1949), Carol Beckwith (American, b. 1945), "Maasai", New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1981.

Mary Nooter Roberts (American, 1959-2018), Allen F. Roberts (American, b. 1945), "The Shape of Belief: African Art from the Dr. Michael R. Heide Collection", Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1996.

James Baldwin (American, 1924-1987), Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988), Ekpo Eyo (Nigerian, b. 1931), Nancy Graves (American, 1935-1995), Ivan Karp (American, 1926-2012), Lela Kouakou, Iba N'Diaye (Senegalese, 1928-2008), David Rockefeller (American, 1915-2017), William Rubin (American, 1927-2006), Robert Farris Thompson (American, b. 1932), Michael John Weber , Susan Vogel (American, b. 1942), "Perspectives: Angles on African Art", New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987.

Paul Radin, "African Folktales", Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1970.

Enid Schildkrout, Curtis A. Keim (, "African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire", Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1990.

Malcolm McLeod (Scottish, b. 1941), "The Treasures of African Art", New York, New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.

Christopher Spring, "African Textiles", New York, New York: Crescent Books, 1989.

Duncan Clarke (South African, b. 1941), "The Art of African Textiles", San Diego, California: Thunder Bay Press, 2002.

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