Hofer, Tamas and Edit Fel — Hungarian Folk Art

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1979. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 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. 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. Hundreds of black-and-white and full-color illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the publisher's blurb, "This handsome volume displays the best of Hungarian folk art, from the seventeenth century to the present day. From the wider context of recent European economic and artistic developments, we are led back to the narrower vista of the Hungarian nation, and within that complex society to the peasantry itself. The book shows both the sociological and the aesthetic significance of the art which they developed both as a result of and in defiance of rapid changes in the world around them, distinguishing between ritual objects of purely aesthetic value and decorated everyday items of no less artistic worth." [7], 8-637 pp. Housed in the original packing box.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,