"A truly marvelous book. Braun
welds together fresh insights and impeccable scholarship, and expresses both
with clarity and grace . . . while establishing original, now unbreakable
connections between the art and architecture of the ancient Americas and the
arts of the modern era. I learned something new on every page."
-Pete Hamill
Until this trailblazing 1993 book, now reissued in paperback, much
attention had been given to the connection between modern art and indigenous
African forms, while pre-Columbian sources of modern art had been largely
unexplored. Correcting this oversight, Barbara Braun offers an in-depth look
at Paul Gauguin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera, Henry Moore, and Joaquín
Torres García and the pre-Columbian forms that provided inspiration for
their art, dramatizing the often surprising comparisons in over 300 striking
illustrations. Together with an overview of more recent artists who continue
to be indebted to ancient American forms and ideas, this "groundbreaking,
exciting study fills a major gap in our understanding of modern
art."-Publishers Weekly
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