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1	Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast more books like this by Hilary Stewart add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern more books like this by William S Rubin (Editor) add to wishlist This lavishly illustrated two-volume set has been heralded as "a landmark publication", and "one of the most important latter-day additions to any serious library of modern art". 350 color and 690 black-and-white illustrations. see all copies from $11.50! new only from $288.57! \| first editions
3	Tribal Art more books like this by Judith Miller, Graham Rae (Photographer), Philip Keith add to wishlist see all copies from $4.31! new only from $21.00! \| first editions
4	World Views more books like this by Laurie Adams, Dale L Jungk, Adams Laurie add to wishlist This text comprises eleven chapters, each focusing on a discrete area of non-Western or Native American art. With nearly 180 illustrations (many in full color) and an accessible 8 1/2 x 11 format, students are introduced to important subjects and artworks outside of the Western tradition. see all copies from $21.59! new only from $53.81! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Northwest Coast Indian Art more books like this by Bill Holm add to wishlist "NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN ART is a very beautiful book and it is also an important contribution to the fields of art and anthropology, Its most distinguished feature is the author's sensitive yet scientific approach in coming firmly to grips with elements of art which often have been considered intangible".--THE BEAVER. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $14.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Native Arts of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific: An Introduction more books like this by George A Corbin add to wishlist This introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific does not briefly cover the hundreds of artistic traditions in these three vast areas but rather studies in depth thirty-six art styles within all three areas using the methods of art history, including stylistic analysis and iconographic interpretation. ... see all copies from $22.39! new only from $52.29! \| first editions \| SVS
7	African Art: An Introduction more books like this by Frank Willett add to wishlist The art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota and other African peoples is extremely vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact their works had upon the development of 20th-century Western art - on Picasso, Derain, Braque and Modigliani, among others - continues to this day. This survey reveals the astonishing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.49! \| first editions
8	The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art more books like this by David Lewis-Williams add to wishlist The central themes of this intellectually invigorating and wide-ranging book - the evolution of the brain and mind, primary vs. higher-order consciousness, Neanderthals vs. Cro-Magnons, the nature of art, and shamanism - are guaranteed to capture the public imagination. This compellingly written 'detective story' puts forward the most convincing ... see all copies from $11.85! new only from $15.63! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Aboriginal Art more books like this by Wally Caruana add to wishlist Aboriginal artists today practise in one of the world's longest continuous tradition of art - and perhaps the last to be generally recognised. Widely sought after, aboriginal art has now taken its place in the collections of leading museums and galleries. This concise survey looks at the work of Australia's indigenous visual artists from all parts ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.39!
10	Canyon de Chelly: Its People and Rock Art more books like this by Campbell Grant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.70! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Peru: Art from the Chavin to the Incas more books like this by Paris Musees Les Musees de La Ville de Paris add to wishlist Richly illustrated, this book describes the grandeur and richness of the numerous civilizations predating the Incas, including the Paracas, Nazca, Recuay, Sican-Lambayeque, Moche-Sipan, and Chimu cultures, as well as the great Inca civilization. Included in the book are the important sites and landscapes representative of the three major ... see all copies from $33.33! new only from $33.33! \| SVS
12 view cover	Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America more books like this by Mary V Campbell, David Levering Lewis (Photographer) add to wishlist In the 1920s, Harlem was "the capital of Black America" and home to an epochal African-American cultural flowering called the Harlem Renaissance. This book presents the work of the most important visual artists of the day, including Meta Warrick Fuller, Aaron Douglas and Palmer Hayden. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists more books like this by Gregory Curtis add to wishlist In a book rich in detail, personalities, and history comes an introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain, and to the men and women who discovered them. of full-color photos. 20 illustrations in text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.54! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876 more books like this by Jean Lipman, Alice Winchester add to wishlist The quintessential guide to folk art in America, based on the landmark Whitney Museum exhibit of 1974, illustrates more than 400 outstanding examples of American craft, covering four major categories--painted, drawn, or stitched pictures; sculpture; architectural decoration; and decorated household objects. 400 b&w and full-color illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.99! \| first editions
15	Masterpieces of Primitive Art more books like this by Lee Boltin add to wishlist see all copies from $3.75! new only from $40.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	Indian Rock Art of the Southwest more books like this by Polly Schaafsma add to wishlist This comprehensive view of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans from 200 B.C. through the nineteenth century surveys the rock art of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and west Texas, providing an incomparable visual record of Southwest Indian culture, religion, and society. Rock carvings and paintings are important sources ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $31.41! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind more books like this by Randall White add to wishlist While some prehistoric sites - notably the painted caves at Lascaux in France and at Altamira in northern Spain - are familiar, many more such places are almost unknown. In fact, remains left by prehistoric men and women are far more numerous and have been found over a much greater territory - including Eurasia, Africa, Australia and the Americas ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $55.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist This is a documentary study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts, namely the feeling that older and less sophisticated or "primitive" works are somehow morally and aesthetically superior to later works that have become refined, soft and decadent. Gombrich traces the existence of such feelings right back to ... see all copies from $9.15! new only from $12.47! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Signs of Life: Rock Art of the Upper Rio Grande more books like this by Dennis Slifer add to wishlist Humans have inhabited the Southwest since ancient times, before the existence of deserts, when the climate was wet and cooler. As the landscape changed, people and cultures evolved, and as they developed in the Rio Grande Valley, they left traces of their presence, signs of life, in their rock art. Ancient images on stone offer intriguing glimpses ... see all copies from $2.64! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	African Art in Cultural Perspective: An Introduction more books like this by William Russell Bascom add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Serpent and the Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art more books like this by Dennis Slifer add to wishlist The Southwest holds a treasure trove of prehistoric rock art, the fascinating images of petroglyphs and pictographs spanning thousands of years of Indian culture. Fertility has been identified as one of the most obvious and persistent themes in rock art, the record resplendent with symbols of birth, death, and procreation. Three-time rock art ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $4.92! \| first editions
22 view cover	Primitive Art in Civilized Places: Second Edition more books like this by Professor Sally Price add to wishlist What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge? Drawing on a mixture of sources, this text explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. see all copies from $3.93! new only from $19.73! \| SVS
23 view cover	American Folk more books like this by Gerald W R Ward add to wishlist From the Boston Museum of Folk Art's collection, this is a choice sampling of toys, paintings, quilts, and much more. see all copies from $3.70! new only from $6.99! \| first editions
24 view cover	Journey through the Ice Age more books like this by Paul Bahn, Jean Vertut (Photographer) add to wishlist An examination of the art of the most recent ice age, which occurred approximately 14,000 years before the birth of Christ, in the Southwestern valley region of France. The author devotes 10 comprehensive chapters to all aspects of Paleolithic Art, then turns his attention to the necessity of dispensing with conjecture in interpreting these cave ... see all copies from $13.58! new only from $50.00! \| first editions
25	Art of Northwest New Guinea more books like this by Suzanne Greup, Suzanne Greub (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $75.00!

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