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Dover, Cedric.
American Negro Art.
Publisher: Longacre Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1960
Stock Code: 15378
First Edition. Large octavo, pp., 186. Illustrated with over 200 full-colour and black-and-white photographs of art throughout. Publisher’s burgundy cloth; titled in silver to spine; pictorial end-papers; in the original unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket bearing an image of Richmond Barthé’s The Negro Looks Forward, as seen on title-page. Minor soiling to foot of lower jacket-panel; jacket otherwise rather bright. A few spots to end-papers; otherwise internally clean. A very good or better copy in like jacket. An expansive examination at the work of Black American artists and the wider impact of their art on the world. The author, Cedric Dover, was an Anglo-Indian anthropologist and advocate for ‘a movement towards coloured unity’. £65.00