African Art: The Arts of Mankind by Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delange

Cover is damaged and part of the Dustcover is missing

Hardcover:  460 Pages

Dimensions 28cm x 22cm

30091 Color Photos, 359 B/W Pho0tos, 11 Drawings, 1 x Fold-Out 2-Page Map of Africa showing "Distribution of (185) Peoples", 1 x Full-Page Physical & Political Map, 4 x 1/4 Page Maps showing "Vegetation Zones", "The Races", "Linguistic Divisions" and "Archaeological & Historical Sites". Sections at the end of the book covering "Notes On The Illustrations", "Glossary-Index", and Bibliography. Authors : Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delange, Published as a volume in "The Arts Of Mankind" series. (Edited by Andre Malraux, Andre Parrot, Albert Beuret.) Translated from the original French by Michael Ross. English Edition Published in the U.S. by Golden Press, 1968.

A commendably ambitious book, and, for its day (1968), one of the best and most comprehensive books on African Tribal Art around. The hundreds of color and B/W photos include some very nice African Tribal Art objects, mostly figures and masks, but also fabrics, plaques, panels, and field photos. If you can forgive the somewhat dated text and presentation, this is still one of the African Tribal Art books to own at the right price. Check out various incarnations of this book, with several different versions on Amazon, and including the French Language version Afrique Noire. La Creation Plastique