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Negro Sculpture

Negro Sculpture

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 9492027100
ISBN13: 9789492027108
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Dec 5 2016
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

There is hardly any other art which Europeans approach with so much mistrust as African art.

Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was a pivotal figure in the development of European modernism that occurred during the years leading up to World War I. With the short, dense and revolutionary text of Negro Sculpture, Einstein undertook the first (European) critical response to African sculpture, challenging various prejudices and misconceptions around this subject. It would quickly become a crucial text for the European avant-garde and today remains indispensable to understanding the shift in discussion towards non-European art taking place at the time. Originally published in 1915, the complete text of Negro Sculpture is presented in English translation here for the first time, including all 108 original plates.

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