Sculpture of the Eskimo (Art Ebook) pdf torrent

Pdf / English / 1972 / 255 pages / 42.7 MB

Sculpture of the Eskimo

GEORG F. SWINTON

37 colour plates, 770 black and white photographs

The photographs in this hook constitute the most thorough visual record of Eskimo sculpture ever to he compiled, presenting most of the important pieces and spanning all of the phases from prehistory to the present. A magnificent pictorial
chronicle and a sensitive appreciation of this highly individualistic art form, Sculpture of the Eskimo does not set out to judge or analyse hut to reveal the aesthetic experience and profound beauty of these finch crafted carvings and sculptures, approaching them as works of art rather than as archaeological or anthropological phenomena.

This book is an attempt to put into pictures and words a world that 1 have known and loved for some twenty years. The more 1 have experienced this world - the more 1 have come to know it and about it - the more difficult it has become for me to transform my feelings and my knowledge into words that say: I know, I really know; let me tell you exactly what I feel; and come, share my experiences with me.