African Textiles and Decorative Arts
by Sieber, Roy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good (light foxing to text block, text and illustrations are otherwise clean. Dust jacket has overall wear with small tear
- ISBN 10
- 0870702289
- ISBN 13
- 9780870702280
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972. Hardcover. Good+/Good (light foxing to text block, text and illustrations are otherwise clean. Dust jacket has overall wear with small tears). Black/tan printed cloth boards, color illustrated dust jacket, decorative end pages, 240 pp., 244 illustrations, with 40 in color. From the dj: this book is the most comprehensive pictorial survey available of the African arts of textile design and personal adornment. The textiles and ornaments presented in this volume were selected from more than 2400 examples photographed in some seventy public and private collections in North America. Included are pictures of costumes, headdresses and hair styles, jewelry and personal utensils, and decorative scarification and painting of the body. Issued in connection with the exhibition to be held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct. 11, 1972-Jan. 31, 1973, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 20-May 31, 1973, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, July 2-Aug. 31, 1973, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct 3-Dec. 2, 1973. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238).
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128921
- Title
- African Textiles and Decorative Arts
- Author
- Sieber, Roy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+/Good (light foxing to text block, text and illustrations are otherwise clean. Dust jacket has overall wear with small tear
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0870702289
- ISBN 13
- 9780870702280
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- African Decorative Arts ; African Textiles, Decorative Arts ; ;
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