The author notes that African art has never been static, but has changed over the centuries just like art elsewhere, thereby debunking a lot of previous theories.
This book, a general survey of African art, takes ample notice of this. African art began to exert a major influence on Euro-American art. African stylization or preference for abstract qualities, it was recognized, composed another whole artistic possibility. But, in the early 20th century, Western artists finally realized that naturalistic art was not the only type in existence. Competent survey from 1971 (I read this edition, not the update)Īfrican art, from the huge continent, was long all labelled “primitive” and relegated to the back rooms of museums, or else treated as curios.
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