Primal arts: Native Americans, Eskimos, & aborigines / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter ; [translated by David Wharry].
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York, NY : Assouline, c2006.Description: 400 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 22 cmISBN:- 2843238242
- 9782843238246
- Arts premiers. English
- 709.011 GEO
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"one of the main points that all Pre-Columbian societies have in common is the clos relationship that the Indians maintained, and still maintain, with nature, which they consider a universal and generous mother. The Indian can therefore not conceive, as Western man does today, of a separation between the human being and the animal kingdom. His very survival deoends to a large extent on nature, and the control he has over it depends on the knowledge he acquires from it" - Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter
Translation of: Arts premiers.
Companion volume to: Primal arts: Africa, Oceania and the Southeast Asian islands.
Volume designation from book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-398).
The Tainos -- Mesoamerica -- South and Central America -- North America -- The Arctic world -- Epilogue: The consecration of aboriginal art.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction: "Through the looking glass" (p. 7)
- The Tainos
- Or the First Encounter (p. 18)
- Mesoamerica
- An Art of Blood and Fury (p. 40)
- The Olmec Mystery or the Disturbing Smile of the Child-Jaguar-Changling (p. 68)
- In the Shadows of the Pyramids of Teotihuacan (p. 84)
- The Mayan Golden Age (p. 98)
- Atlantes and Warriors: Toltec Military Art (p. 128)
- The Aztecs, or the Twilight of the Gods (p. 140)
- South and Central America
- The Mirage of El Dorado (p. 164)
- The Tears of the Sun (p. 190)
- The Kingdom of the Birdmen (p. 214)
- Panamanian Psychedelic Ceramics (p. 240)
- North America
- More Indian Than Indian (p. 250)
- Masks and Totems of the Northwest Coast (p. 260)
- Painted Buffalo Hides of the Plains Indians (p. 274)
- The Dance of the Kachina Dolls (p. 288)
- The Arctic World
- The Call of the Far North (p. 314)
- The Hallucinatory Art of the Artic People (p. 325)
- Shamanic Icons (p. 348)
- Epilogue: the consecration of aboriginal art (p. 370)
- Maps (p. 388)
- Chronology (p. 394)
- Selected Bibliography (p. 396)
- Acknowlegments (p. 399)
- Photography Credits (p. 100)