ANTON (Ferdinand) & DOCKSTADER (Frederick J.) - Lot 28

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ANTON (Ferdinand) & DOCKSTADER (Frederick J.) - Lot 28
ANTON (Ferdinand) & DOCKSTADER (Frederick J.) The Art of America, Africa, and Oceania. Preface by Max-Pol Fouchet. Paris-Brussels, Elsevier Séquoia, 1980. Large quarto, publisher’s binding with a color-illustrated dust jacket, 523 pp. An important volume in the “L’Art du monde” series, a comprehensive nine-volume international encyclopedia of art history, with a general preface by Max-Pol Fouchet. French edition translated from the German. The work is listed as a first edition published by Elsevier Séquoia in 1980. Extensive and remarkable iconography in black-and-white and color, both full-page and within the text: sculptures, masks, ceramics, textiles, ritual objects, architecture, and decorative arts. The volume successively covers the major artistic civilizations of pre-Columbian America—notably the Olmecs, the Maya, the Aztecs, the civilizations from Nicaragua to Colombia, and the Inca world—as well as African arts, with a significant focus on masks and sculpture, and finally the arts of Oceania, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Together, these sections constitute an ambitious synthesis of non-European arts, conceived at a time when these arts were gaining increasing prominence in major general histories of art. Max-Pol Fouchet’s preface specifically emphasizes the need to view these creations as works of art in their own right rather than under the outdated label of “primitive” arts. A fine, complete copy with its illustrated dust jacket. Some scuffing and minor signs of wear on the dust jacket; the interior is fresh and well-preserved. Listed dimensions of approximately 21.5 × 25.5 cm.
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