Abstract
AFTER this book had been written and was passing through the press, Prof. Julius E. Lips, formerly director of the Kautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Cologne, was moved to tell his readers in a foreword the circumstances of its production. Although not a Jew, his championship of freedom of thought and research brought him into conflict with the authorities and cost him his appointment. When deprived of all opportunity to continue his work and summoned to deliver up the material, which he had collected laboriously for the purpose of investigating this particular manifestation of primitive art, on the ground that it was subversive of the Nazi doctrine of Aryan supremacy—it certainly does not flatter the white man—he left his country to take refuge in Paris and later in America.
The Savage Hits Back:
or The White Man through Native Eyes. By Prof. Julius E. Lips. Translated from the German by Vincent Benson. Pp. xxxi + 254. (London: Lovat Dickson, Ltd., 1937.) 21s. net.
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Primitive Art and Artists. Nature 140, 619–620 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140619a0
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