History of art . f Egyptian art that wesee in Negro sculpture—one whichmay carry us back almost as far asthe appearance of man in such a beginning may well havecome the sudden start for the ascent,through the long centuries in thegreat fertile valley where the blackand white races fuse. Then, afterthe slowest, the loftiest, the mostconscious stylization, after the art ofthe Nile has sunk into the sands, theNegro again prolongs the immobileinspiration of Africa until our owntime. But to him we must not lookfor metaphysical abstractions, for hegives us only his sensations, as short-l
History of art . f Egyptian art that wesee in Negro sculpture—one whichmay carry us back almost as far asthe appearance of man in such a beginning may well havecome the sudden start for the ascent,through the long centuries in thegreat fertile valley where the blackand white races fuse. Then, afterthe slowest, the loftiest, the mostconscious stylization, after the art ofthe Nile has sunk into the sands, theNegro again prolongs the immobileinspiration of Africa until our owntime. But to him we must not lookfor metaphysical abstractions, for hegives us only his sensations, as short-lived as they are violent—an attemptto satisfy the most immediate needsthat spring from a rudimentary fetishism. And per-haps it is even because of his fearful candor in show-ing us rough surfaces, short limbs, bestial heads, and Africa. Tribal fetish (Ivory Coast). {Guillaume Collection.) THE TROPICS 173 drooping breasts that he reaches his great expressive-ness. These sculptures in wood—black wood on which.
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