RACHET (Guy) - Lot 260

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RACHET (Guy) - Lot 260
RACHET (Guy) A World History of Sculpture: Prehistory and Primitive Cultures. Paris, CELIV, 1983 [some entries list 1984]. Substantial in-4 volume, 190 pp., publisher’s hardcover with a color-illustrated dust jacket, numerous black-and-white and color photographic reproductions—some full-page or double-page—maps, bibliography, and index. A major synthesis by Guy Rachet devoted to the origins of sculpture and the arts of traditional societies, published in the *World History of Sculpture* series. The work covers a particularly broad scope: prehistoric sculpture, Black Africa, Oceania, pre-Columbian America and North America, the arts of Arctic peoples, and various non-European sculptural traditions. The section on North America specifically addresses Inuit art and the works of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States. The illustrations are one of the volume’s main attractions: a vast number of works from museum collections, featuring spectacular full-page color reproductions. Notably included are Benin bronzes, as well as African, Oceanic, and North American sculptures. A Benin bronze reproduced in the book is also documented by JSTOR, which notes its color reproduction in this French edition. Copy in very good overall condition. Binding and interior are clean and fresh. Dust jacket intact, with some slight rubbing and minor signs of wear visible, particularly on the top and bottom flaps and edges, but with no apparent significant damage.
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