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A Mask Discovered. Views On Primitive Art From The Himalayas

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Little, Marc
With uncovered mask. Insights into the primitive art of the Himalayas.

Paris: Stock/Aldines, 1995. 286 pp. cloth binding under illustrated dust jacket, (in cardboard slipcase)
Very nice copy
 Shapes have more memory than men. What emerges there, in all these silent, serious or laughing faces, draws the relief of a submerged continent: the old Asia of shamans and possession cults. Faced with the codified formulas of Indian and Tibetan classicism, the primitive art of the Himalayas asserts its singularity, its power of invention and its humor, its poetry and its expressive force. For the first time, a book makes these unknown forms visible and legible in a dialogue between image and word, the mask and its double: essay, travelogue and aesthetic summary, work of both passion and reflection

Little, Marc With uncovered mask. Insights into the primitive art of the Himalayas. Paris: Stock/Aldines, 1995. 286 pp. cloth binding under illustrated dust jacket, (in cardboard slipcase) Very nice copy  Shapes have more memory than men. What emerges there, in all these silent, serious or laughing faces, draws the relief of a submerged continent: the old Asia of shamans and possession cults. Faced with the codified formulas of Indian and Tibetan classicism, the primitive art of the Himalayas asserts its singularity, its power of invention and its humor, its poetry and its expressive force. For the first time, a book makes these unknown forms visible and legible in a dialogue between image and word, the mask and its double: essay, travelogue and aesthetic summary, work of both passion and