[ARTS PREMIERS] BASLER, Adolphe. Art among primitive peoples - Lot 260

[ARTS PREMIERS] BASLER, Adolphe. Art among primitive peoples. Paris, Librairie de France, 1929. In-4, paperback, illustrated cover. 83 pages + 602 plates of black photographs + 2 ff.n.ch. (table of plates). Spine missing, covers detached, discharge on first cover. "In our age of tormented minds and anguished souls, we are no longer content with traditional forms of art or the Western aesthetic known as Gallo-Roman. Our restless generations have sought to replace reason and the canon of the beautiful with the fabulous and restless expressiveness". So begins this fascinating panorama of primitive art around the world (Africa, Oceania, the Malay Archipelago, America and the Arctic Lands), exploring the styles and civilizations of these newly-discovered arts, which were all the rage in France at the time. An interesting document on knowledge and representations of the primitive arts in the Western world at the end of the 1920s. Fair condition, interior well preserved.