Masterpieces of Primitive Art Author:Douglas Newton The artistic achievements of the world's primitive societies have never been so fully revealed and superbly portrayed as in this extraordinary volume that celebrates--and shares with us--the peerless collection of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Amassed with passion and discrimination through almost fifty years, the Rockefeller Collection encompasses... more » every source of primitive art from Black Africa to the islands of Oceania to Precolumbian America as well as the many Indian cultures of the northern continent.
Here are 254 paramount works of art in all their splendor and visual daring. In Lee Boltin's sumptuous color photographs, pictures that are themselves works of art, we discover the astonishing scope of the Rockefeller Collection--the finely wrought Mayan and Aztec artifacts that amazed the conquistadors, a claok of feathers as splendid as jewels, mysterious masks fashioned for ceremonial use, statues carved in stone and wood, brilliant textiles, ritual objects of gold, silver, bronze, jade, cloth, shells--every one a masterpiece displaying an aesthetic sophistication that belies the very notion of "primitive".
This book includes 254 plates in full color.« less