Study on Alaskan Eskimo Masks

Description

ROUSSELOT (Jean-Loup), ABEL (Bernard), PIERRE (José), BIHL (Catherine) Masques Eskimo d'Alaska. Amez - Collection "Art & ethnologie". Saint-Vit, 1991. Large format hardcover with illustrated dust jacket, (34 x 22 cm), 396 pages, beautiful color iconography. This original edition presents an important study on Alaskan Eskimo masks: Yup'ik masks, the art of Eskimos viewed through the lens of surrealists, Inupiaq masks, recent variations and masks, Aleut masks, Koniag and Chugach masks, materials and dyes, the Alphonse Pinart collection, Eskimos and Koloches. Numerous color reproductions, glossary, bibliography. A very fine copy. No shipping outside the European Union.