FORMAN (Werner and Bedřich). — Art from Faraway Lands: Egypt - Lot 129

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FORMAN (Werner and Bedřich). — Art from Faraway Lands: Egypt - Lot 129
FORMAN (Werner and Bedřich). — Art from Faraway Lands: Egypt—Africa—America—Oceania—Indonesia. Prague, Artia, 1956. A substantial large-format quarto (approx. 33 × 25 cm), 323 pp., lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color photographic reproductions, some full-page; publisher’s cloth-bound edition, with a color-illustrated dust jacket. Written by Lubor Hájek, with a preface by Professor V. V. Štech and texts by B. Forman, N. Frýd, L. Hájek, J. Hloucha, A. Hoffmeister, M. Oplt, V. Šolc, and Z. Žába. The Smithsonian bibliography confirms the 1956 Artia edition, 323 pages, and a size of 33 cm. An important album devoted to non-European art held in Czechoslovak public and private collections: Egypt, Africa, the Americas, Oceania, and Indonesia. The book stands out above all for the quality of the photographs by Werner and Bedřich Forman, which showcase sculptures, masks, ritual objects, and ethnographic artifacts. The photographs in your copy include, in particular, remarkable large plates dedicated to Egyptian statuary as well as masks and wood carvings from Black Africa. This is actually the first volume of a two-volume set: the second, devoted to the Near East, India, Indochina, Tibet, China, Japan, and the Chukchi, was published in 1957. Publisher’s hardcover with an illustrated dust jacket. Interior in good condition. Dust jacket is heavily worn, scuffed, and cracked, with numerous tears and small missing pieces along the edges.
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