Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

4to. 10 x 7.25 inches. xxii+ 416 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Rough cut edges. Minor wear to extremities and occasional scattered foxing; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by over 12O pages of black and white plates numbered in text and by map and facsimiles. Green map endpapers. Well known for her sculptures of ballet dancers, US sculptor, Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966), was commissioned by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, to model ethnographic types around the world. This book is the story of that project prefaced by an account of her early life and influences and is extensively illustrated. She took more than 2000 photographs as a basis for over one hundred sculptures in bronze, marble and stone and these were put on display in the Museum's Hall of Man in 1933 and lasted until 1969.