Books by Hal Whitehead

It doesn’t sound quite righ t to still call it that, does it ?  In any case it is on display at the National Museum of African Art .  At least two-thirds of the collection is lame and maybe a third or somewhat less is wonderful.  Cosby for instance has excellent works by Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin , Minnie Evans , Henry Ossawa Tanner , (and here ), Romare Bearden, some amazing quilts and textiles (try here too ), and quality African ethnographic pieces.  The works by lesser-known creators are...

Here is one blog post report on these practices .  Here is one piece of the original research .  I stumbled upon this while reading the new and excellent Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins , a new book from University of Chicago Press.