The Way of the Masks

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Book Overview

Claude Levi-Strauss's fascination with Northwest Coast Indian art dates back to the late 1930s. "Sometime before the outbreak of the Second World War," he writes, "I had already bought in Paris a Haida slate panel pipe." In New York in the early forties, he shared his enthusiasm with a group of Surrealist refugee artists with whom he was associated. "Surely it will not be long," he wrote in an article published in 1943, "before we see the collections...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029596636X
• ISBN13: 9780295966366
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.3"