An American Indian Camp: The Day of the Bison Hunt. 1962 Pop-Up Book. Illustrated by Vojtěch Kubašta AP1733

  Eight pages of text plus a gorgeous double page pop-up of an Indian village. Bound in stiff illustrated cardboard with a cloth spine, Folio. Published by Bancroft in London, printed in Czechoslovakia. In very good condition. Closed, the book measures 9" x 13". Vojtěch Kubašta (1914, in Vienna – 1992) was a Czech architect and artist. He created pop-up books. Vojtěch Robert Vladimír Kubašta was born in Vienna. His family moved to Prague when he was four years old and he lived there his entire life. He demonstrated his artistic talent at the age of four. He had a great desire to become an artist. His father, however, had different goals for his son. He wanted him to study law. Nevertheless, the young Vojtěch persisted with his aspiration to become an artist and, eventually, his father agreed that his son could become an architect. The study of architecture, at that time, was considered more of an artistic undertaking than a technical discipline. Some of the great Czech master painters,