Closeup, Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection

Published by Center for African Art, NYC, 1990, hardcover, 194 pages, 24 cms x 31 cms, condition: as new.

This beautiful volume presents African sculptures of exceptional beauty and value, provides sensitive photographs of heretofore unknown masterpieces and famous works, too. It's an exercise in how to look at African art and artissts. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in bright red cloth and with sharp and distinct lettering to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Preface by Susan Vogel. Includes essays by Jerry Thompson, Vogel, and with catalogue by Anne D'Alleva. 196 pp., and with 123 full color illustrations, 62 black-and-white photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.