Negerplastik
Negerplastik is a 1915 Leipzig art book by the German writer Carl Einstein, published by Verlag der Weissen Bücher, and it presents African sculpture as serious art rather than ethnographic curiosity. Its photographs are plain studio views of single standing figures on neutral grounds, numbered in the page margins, with the carved surfaces, scarification and facial features clearly lit, which a designer might use as reference for pared-down, modernist treatments of the human figure.
