Primal Arts: Native Indians; Eskimos; Aborigines - Hardcover

Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2843238242 ISBN 13: 9782843238246

Publisher: Assouline, 2006

Synopsis

Exploring the similarities between these lost cultures, Primal Arts II illuminates their lives, revealing how these people worked with nature and created and used various objects that, today, are considered great works of art. Linking previously unpublished archives with the most significant works from collections around the world, Primal Arts II is the ultimate resource book, providing a comprehensive look at the history and art of lost cultures. Featuring seventeenth-century European engravings, artwork by George Catlin, photographs by Curtis, the Karel Kupka collection of Aboriginal paintings, detailed accounts of Claude Levi-Strauss's expeditions in Amazonia and Paul-Emile Victor's journeys in the Arctic, and the author's original research, this book is the must-have volume for anyone interested in primal arts, archeology, and cultural history.

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Review:

"One of the main points that all Pre-Columbian societies have in common is the close relationship that the Indians maintained, and still maintain, with nature, which they consider a universal and generous mother. The Indian can therefore not conceive, as Western man does today, of a separation between the human being and the animal kingdom. His very survival depends to a large extent on nature, and the control he has over it depends on the knowledge he acquires from it."

About the Author:

Berenice Groffroy-Schneiter trained as an archeologist and art historian after spending part of her childhood in Afghanistan, whose landscape and culture left a profound impression on her. She also wrote Assouline's Ethnic Style.

About this edition

• Publisher: Assouline
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 2843238242
• ISBN 13: 9782843238246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400