Negro Sculpture

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?There is hardly any other art which Europeans approach with so much mistrust as African art. The first move is to even deny that there is such a thing as?art', and then to emphasise the distance which separates such products from the creations of the Europeans, with a contempt that leads to demeaning terminology In his judgements on the Negroes the European retains one major postulate: his invincible, however exaggerated, superiority. Such disrespect for the Negro is de facto born of our ignorance and the source of the unjust harm done to him." Carl Einstein (1885-1940) wa.  Read more... Cover; Title Page; CONTENTS; Introduction; NEGRO SCULPTURE; Remarks On Method; The Painterly; Religion And African Art; Three-Dimensional Spatial Vision; Masks And Similar Practises; PLATES; NEGERPLASTIK; Anmerkungen zur Methode; Das Malerische; Religion und afrikanische Kunst; Kubische Raumanschauung; Maske und Verwandtes; About the Author; Colophon.