Volume 18, Number 8 · May 4, 1972
Zebra Crossings
By Ernst Gombrich
House Decoration in Nubia
by Marian Wenzel
University of Toronto Press, 256, 111 illustrations pp., $20.00
Nuba Personal Art
by James C. Faris
University of Toronto Press, 160, illustrated pp., $16.00
Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen
by Andrew Strathern, by Marilyn Strathern
University of Toronto Press, 220, 115 illustrations pp., $11.50
Bangwa Funerary Sculpture
by Robert Brain, by Adam Pollock
University of Toronto Press, 160, 82 illustrations pp., $16.50
Since the days when Jean Jacques Rousseau shook the self-confidence of Western man, the mentality and the art of simpler societies have been a potential object of nostalgic admiration. We are just celebrating the second centenary of Goethe's first publication, his passionate manifesto in favor of Strasbourg's Gothic minster. The association of the term 'Gothic' with the idea of barbarism made him exalt the art of a 'noble savage' which he could never have seen:
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