Primal arts: Native Americans, Eskimos, and aborigines
New York, NY
Assouline
2006
399 p.: ill. )some col.(, maps, ports.; 22 cm
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(
ISBN: 9782843238246
Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter; ]translated by David Wharry[
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Introduction: "Through the looking glass" -- The Tainos -- Or the First Encounter -- Mesoamerica -- An Art of Blood and Fury -- The Olmec Mystery or the Disturbing Smile of the Child-Jaguar-Changling -- In the Shadows of the Pyramids of Teotihuacan -- The Mayan Golden Age -- Atlantes and Warriors: Toltec Military Art -- The Aztecs, or the Twilight of the Gods -- South and Central America -- The Mirage of El Dorado -- The Tears of the Sun -- The Kingdom of the Birdmen -- Panamanian Psychedelic Ceramics -- North America -- More Indian Than Indian -- Masks and Totems of the Northwest Coast -- Painted Buffalo Hides of the Plains Indians -- The Dance of the Kachina Dolls -- The Arctic World -- The Call of the Far North -- The Hallucinatory Art of the Artic People -- Shamanic Icons -- Epilogue: the consecration of aboriginal art.