Mary McCarthy
Tribal Alphabet, 1998
Boston: Mary McCarthy
One of twenty-six copies, signed by the artist.
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Octavo. (30)ff. An abecedarian study of traditional masks from indigenous African peoples, from the Adauma of Gabon to the Zande of Zaire. A prefatory page organizes the tribes by modern...
Octavo. (30)ff. An abecedarian study of traditional masks from indigenous African peoples, from the Adauma of Gabon to the Zande of Zaire. A prefatory page organizes the tribes by modern countries, and at the rear is a reference list. Images reproduced by scanning original collages. Text handwritten and reproduced by silkscreen. Bound in full black cloth over boards and ornamented in acrylic and ink. Fine. Artist's advertising postcard, inscribed, laid in.
