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285 pp.; 110 colour and 64 b/w illus., bibliography. Text: French. Exh. catalogue Musée Dapper, Paris, 1994. Hbk. First edition. KEYWORDS: 006 Africa: West.

619 pages, 248 large color p hotographs, 815 b/w photographs, 8maps. Cloth cover., small folio size. The biggest and most handsome survey book on African art published in decades, this stunning, folio-size volume has an information-filled text, and is packed with photographs of masterpieces from museums and private collections in Europe and the U.S., most never before published. The 248 dazzling color photographs, most of which are full-page, may constitute, by themselves, the largest, finest group of color photogrpahs of African art to appear in a single volume added to these great illustrations are in-depth discussioons of more than 100 art-producing ethnic groups and a lengthy, provocative essays on "Comparative Aesthetics and African Sculpture".…

180 pages, 49 color and 15 b/w photographs of objects from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the collection of the Musee Barbier-Muller.