Miklos Szalay - African Art from the Han Coray Collection 1916-1928 - 1998

African Art from the Han Coray Collection 1916-1928 - Völkerkundemuseum, University of Zurich - Edited by Miklos Szalay with contributions by Georg Baselitz, Irma Breitwieser, Rudolf Koella, Fritz W. Kramer, Richard Kriesche, Gérald Minkoff, Muriel Olesen, Chéri Samba, Werner Schmalenbach, Daniel Spoerri, Harald Szeemann and Miklos Szalay -
Very Important Photographic Credits by Peter Nebel (217 illustrations black and white and 117 in colour, Map of sub-Saharan Africa by Heike Carrle, Munich) -
Principally of Artifacts of one of the foremost European collections of African Art, now in the Volkerkunde Museum at the University of Zurich -
This book was first published on the occasion of the exhibition "African Art from the Han Coray Collection 1916-1928" at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 1998, and then touring to other venues - The contribution by Chérie Samba appears with the kind support of Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung - Prestel-verlag, Munich - New York, 1998 - Publisher's binding in full black cloth, gilt titled spine, illustrated under jacket, 260 pages, format: 30,5 x 25 cm - Very good Conditions - Contents: see photos and below:
Acknowledgements - Foreword - Miklos Szalay. The Classical -
Art as Art: On the Road to LA MAMMA - The Mirror. Between Attraction and Repulsion - On Several Black Women and their Magnetism - Art, Viewed as Art - Art That is Completely Explicable is Not Art - They are Not Animals, Nor Legendary Creatures, Nor Spirits, Either; But Somehow They Resemble Human Beings More than Not /
Reflections: Notes Made While Viewing the Coray Collection - Mother and Child, Endlessly Varied - Cheri Samba. Hommage aux anciens créateurs - Searching For the Breath of the Dead -
Plates - Art in Discourse: Ritual and Aesthetic Experience - Art as Cultural Work -
The Collector: Voyages to New Lands - Biography: Han Coray (1880-1974) - "Archive". A Photographic Inventory from the 193os - The Authors - Bibliography -