Wassing, R.S. — African Art: Its Background and Traditions

New York, Portland House, 1988. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound handsomely in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 144 photographs by Hans Hinz, in both black-and-white and full-color. Table of Contents shows chapters on "The African and His Environment", "Material Aspects Of Art", "Social Life", "Economics", "Religion and the Supernatural", "Intellectual Communication and Technology", and "Modern Developments". Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,