Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935

Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935

Webb, Virginia-Lee
2000
112 pages
89 illustrations
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Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments

Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935

Introduction

The Exhibition of African Art

The Traveling Exhibition of Sculptures

The Portfolio of Photographs by Walker Evans

The Traveling Exhibition of Photographs

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Notes

Plates

Bibliography

Archival Sources

Appendix 1: List of Venues and Dates for the Exhibition of Sculpture "African Negro Art"

Appendix 2: Distribution and Formats of the Walker Evans Portfolios

Appendix 3: Dates and Venues for the Circulating Exhibition "Photographs of African Negro Art by Walker Evans"

Appendix 4: Contents and 1935 Arrangement of the Traveling Exhibition "Photographs of African Negro Art by Walker Evans"

Photograph Credits
Index
Walker Evans Photographs

[Walker Evans Seated on Roof of Apartment Building at 441 East 92nd Street, New York City], Janice Loeb  American, Gelatin silver print
Janice Loeb
1938–40
[Manuscript, Typescript, and Carbon Notes, Including Notebook of Exposure Records, Correspondence, and Nine Gelatin Silver Prints Relating to African Art Portfolio Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art], Walker Evans  American
Multiple artists/makers
1935–52

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Webb, Virginia-Lee, and Walker Evans. 2000. Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams.