OCEANIA
Material Type: general or thematic Work
Publisher: Gallimard NRF, The World of Forms / Volume: 4, Paris, 1963. Bound with Cardboard editor binding the editor in full red cloth, gilt title under jacket illustrated color very good condition Very good flaps state, in-4, size: 23 x 28 cm
Content: 478 p, 329 b / w photos, 107 col photos, 5 color including 1 in folded-fine (end of volume). cards, biblio., 2 figures, index, and iconographic documentation colophon.
Additional information: original edition. Printed in photogravure. book sold
State of the work: Very good condition
Description
Religious or magical, this diabolical art has the grace of fragility and held by its double graceful and terrible: a high poetic potential. The Surrealists were not mistaken. More than any other, the art of Oceania has the appearance of the ephemeral. If it still exists, it is because the tradition has not been lost. This art is made of lightweight materials: no metal, no stone, but carved and painted white wood, tree fern root, cut like a marble, cowries, shells, sea turtle shells, teeth pork returned fangs, feathers of birds of the islands, mats, tapas, violent makeups that are like masks painted on the skin or worn by the most vivid colors, sometimes even heightened by collars, hairstyles, flower plumes, fruit and palms. This book “Oceania” fourth volume of the collection: The Universe of Forms led by Andre Malraux and Georges Salles was entrusted to the anthropologist, historian and specialist Pacifiqueau Guiart founder and director of the Center of Studies for Oceania of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
Additional information
| Weight | 2220 g |
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| Dimensions | 23 × 28 cm |
