Sculpture, Primitive

Here are entered works discussing collectively the traditional sculpture of the preliterate and nonindustrialized peoples of the world. Works on such sculpture from a specific place or specific people are entered under the heading for the sculpture of that place or people, e.g. Sculpture, Melanesian; Inca sculpture.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Sculpture

• Idols and images

• Primitive sculpture

• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro Art in Belgian Congo (third edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1952), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (fourth edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1958), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats with rotated pages at archive.org)

• The Deceived (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c1990), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)

• The Book of Idols, by Ibn al-Kalbi, ed. by Nabih Amin Faris (HTML at answering-islam.org)
• Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken (New York: Standard Publishing House, 1883), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Gods and Devils of Mankind (c1897), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• How to Understand Sculpture (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911), by Margaret Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts: Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, by Juliet Helena Lumbard James (Gutenberg text)

• Art Treasures of Belgium II: Sculpture (New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1954), by Marguerite Devigne (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)

• Les Sculptures de Plein Air à Bruxelles: Guide Explicatif (in French; Brussels: E. Bruylant, 1900), by Polydore Gustave Meirsschaut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les Sculptures de Plein Air à Bruxelles: Guide Explicatif (in French; Brussels: E. Bruylant, 1900), by Polydore Gustave Meirsschaut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Antike Bildwerke in Rom, mit Ausschluss der Grösseren Sammlungen (3 volumes in German; ca. 1881), by Friedrich Matz and Friedrich Karl von Duhn
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi (PDF files at getty.edu)

• The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Pamela Z. Blum (HTML at UC Press)

• Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Pamela Z. Blum (HTML at UC Press)

• Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshorn Collection (1962), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by H. Harvard Arnason, Abram Lerner, and Thomas M. Messer
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Celebrating the Immigrant: An Administrative History of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, 1952-1982, by Barbara Blumberg (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshorn Collection (1962), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by H. Harvard Arnason, Abram Lerner, and Thomas M. Messer
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Mary Weitzel Gibbons (HTML at UC Press)

• Sculpture and the Making of Statues From an Islamic Point of View, by 'Umar Mukhtar Qadi, trans. by Lahcen Haddad (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Mediaeval Gem Engraving, by C. W. King (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)

• Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell, by Hans Henning van der Osten (page images at Chicago)

• Sigillographie de l'Empire Byzantin (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1884), by Gustave Léon Schlumberger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Numismata Cromwelliana: or, The Medallic History of Oliver Cromwell, Illustrated by His Coins, Medals and Seals (London: John Russell Smith, 1877), by Henry William Henfrey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google

• Numismata Cromwelliana: or, The Medallic History of Oliver Cromwell, Illustrated by His Coins, Medals and Seals (London: John Russell Smith, 1877), by Henry William Henfrey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google

• Numismata Cromwelliana: or, The Medallic History of Oliver Cromwell, Illustrated by His Coins, Medals and Seals (London: John Russell Smith, 1877), by Henry William Henfrey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google

• Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1916), by George Frederick Kunz (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)

• Modelling in Public Schools (Boston and New York: J. L. Hammett Co., c1909), by Walter Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Boston Elbow (1984), by Sandra J. Tenenbaum (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Boston Elbow (1984), by Sandra J. Tenenbaum (PDF files at Princeton)

• Dental Laboratory Technology (Washington: Department of the Air Force, 1982), by L. J. Mazulewicz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona: A Centennial History of the First Prehistoric Reserve, 1892-1992, by A. Berle Clemensen (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona, by Albert H. Schroeder and Homer F. Hastings (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Needles of Stone (electronic edition, 1998), by Tom Graves (illustrated HTML at Glastonbury Archive)

• History of the Confederated Memorial Associations of the South (revised and authorized edition, c1904), by Confederated Southern Memorial Association (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Negro Art in Belgian Congo (third edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1952), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (fourth edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1958), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats with rotated pages at archive.org)

• The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Stella G. S. Perry, contrib. by Alexander Stirling Calder (Gutenberg text)

• Modern Sculpture in Belgium (New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1948), by Jan Albert Goris (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)

• The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin, by Frederick Lawton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Idealismus und Naturalismus in der Gotischen Skulptur und Malerei (in German; Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1918), by Max Dvorak (page images at HathiTrust)

• Répertoire de Reliefs Grecs et Romains (3 volumes in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1909-1912), by Salomon Reinach (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Römischen Grabaltäre der Kaiserzeit (in German; Berlin, Weidmann, 1905), by Walter Altmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Répertoire de Reliefs Grecs et Romains (3 volumes in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1909-1912), by Salomon Reinach (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora (4th printing; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1974, c1959), by Dorothy Burr Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• Dolly and I: A Story for Little Folks (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twinklinka (Pannipitiya: Tikiri Publishers, 2008), by Janaki Sooriyarachchi (page images at childrenslibrary.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.