African Art - An Introduction (Art Ebook).pdf

African Art. An Introduction
Praeger Publishers | 1971 | ISBN: N/A | English | 290 pages | PDF | 46.8 MB

Only in comparatively recent times have the tribal arts of sub-Saharan Africa, by universal agreement, taken their place among the great creative achievements of mankind. Their vigor, symbolic strength, and sophisticated abstraction have come to be appreciated not only for their aesthetic and sociological significance; they are also recognized as a crucial influence in the development of twentieth-century Western art. Indeed, the response of Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, and other great modern masters to African sculpture, with its unique and powerful geometrization of form, has played a major part in making African art familiar to the world. Yet the subject is still very little known and
misconceptions abound.