PRIMITIVE ARTS IN ARTISTS' STUDIOS - Lot 12

PRIMITIVE ARTS IN ARTISTS' STUDIOS Paris, 1967. A major catalog devoted to the influence of so-called “primitive” arts on Western artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. This publication accompanies a pioneering exhibition at the Musée de l'Homme highlighting the aesthetic and intellectual links between African, Oceanic, and American arts and the major European avant-garde movements. The book brings together numerous reproductions of objects from the Musée de l’Homme’s collections, as well as documents illustrating their presence in the studios of major artists. It bears witness to the fundamental role played by these works in the emergence of modern movements, from Symbolism to Cubism, including Expressionism and Surrealism. More than just an exhibition catalog, this volume serves as a historical document on the reception of non-European arts in the Western art world and on the formation of major French ethnographic collections. Quarto, illustrated paperback. Publisher: Société des Amis du Musée de l’Homme, Paris, 1967. Illustrations: numerous black-and-white photographic reproductions. Subject: African, Oceanic, and American arts; history of taste; ethnographic collections; influences on modern art.