Obituaries: Philip John Crosskey Dark (1918-2008)

摘要

The intricate wood and calabash carvings and basketry of these descendants of fugitive slaves became the subject of Dark's 1950 Master's thesis; based on secondary ethnographic literature and a trait analysis of several museum collections, it was later published separately in a pioneering monographic study (Dark 1954a). While at Yale, Dark's interests in tribal art and its cultural analysis led him to a two-year seminar with the art historian George Kubier, who integrated anthropological perspectives into his work on pre-Columbian art.