Primitive Negro Art, Chiefly from the Belgian Congo
by Culin, Stewart
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- first
- Condition
- In fine condition.
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Budapest, Hungary
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About This Item
A rare copy of this important catalog for the iconic and first major exhibition of African art in America.
In 1903, Stewart Culin (1858-1929) became the founding curator of the Department of Ethnology at the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, now the Brooklyn Museum. He was among the first museum curators to display ethnological collections as art objects, not as ethnographic specimens, and among the first to recognize museum installation as an art form in its own right. He made his intentions clear in the catalog's introductory essay: "The entire collection, whatever may have been its original uses, is shown under the classification of art; as representing a creative impulse, and not for the purpose of illustrating the customs of African peoples".
The exhibition of Primitive Negro Art opened in April 1923, and based in large part on Culin's collection which became in turn the basis for the Brooklyn Museum's collection.
WorldCat locates only 2 copies in institutional holdings (NGA Library, Washington; Kunstbibliothek Berlin), besides those the Brooklyn Museum also holds a copy.
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- Bookseller
- Foldvaribooks (HU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1733
- Title
- Primitive Negro Art, Chiefly from the Belgian Congo
- Author
- Culin, Stewart
- Illustrator
- Illustrated with 8 photographic plates.
- Format/Binding
- In publisher's illustrated wrappers
- Book Condition
- Used - In fine condition.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Brooklyn Museum
- Place of Publication
- Brooklyn
- Date Published
- 1923
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