Tribal Art

Catalog of the exhibition organized by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren), this book offers a new look at the peoples of the Omo Valley and neighboring regions. Exhibited for the first time, their everyday objects are highlighted for their beauty and their role in a society that must constantly adapt to the laws of nature. Texts by Gustaaf Verswijver, curator of the exhibition and scientific researcher, explain the social and geopolitical issues and recent challenges facing these pastoral communities. Fifty previously unpublished photographs by Hans Silvester illustrate the author's introduction and comments on the body paintings of the Omo peoples.

Author: Gustaaf Verswijver
Editions de La Martinière
Color photographs by Hans Silvester
Royal ...

Catalog of the exhibition organized by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren), this book offers a new look at the peoples of the Omo Valley and neighboring regions. Exhibited for the first time, their everyday objects are highlighted for their beauty and their role in a society that must constantly adapt to the laws of nature. Texts by Gustaaf Verswijver, curator of the exhibition and scientific researcher, explain the social and geopolitical issues and recent challenges facing these pastoral communities. Fifty previously unpublished photographs by Hans Silvester illustrate the author's introduction and comments on the body paintings of the Omo peoples.

Author: Gustaaf Verswijver Editions de La Martinière
Color photographs by Hans Silvester
Royal ...

Catalog of the exhibition "Art of Micronesia", at the gallery Voyageurs & curieux, in Paris, from December 6 to 28, 2013. About fifty works from the islanders of Micronesia: Carolinas Islands, Ponape, Chuuk Islands, Woleai Atoll, Yap, Palau Islands, Tobi Island, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu Islands (Ellice Islands), Kiribati Islands (Gilbert Islands), Nauru.

Author: Jean-Edouard Carlier
Editions : Travelers & curious
Color photographs of Hughes Dubois
Condition : NEW
Language : French
Number of pages: 93
Dimensions: 215 x 280 mm
Paperback

Art of Oceania. The catalog of the exhibition "Polynesian Enclaves", organized from June 1 to July 7, 2018, at the gallery Voyageurs & curieux. 188 objects from the Para-Polynesian Islands or Polynesian Enclaves: Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi, Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Sikaiana, Rennel, Bellona, Santa Cruz Islands, Tikopia Island, Anuta Island.

Author: Jean-Edouard Carlier
Editions : Travelers & curious
Color Photographs
Condition : NEW
Language : French
Number of pages: 224
Dimensions: 290 x 220 mm
Paperback

Catalog of the exhibition "Affinity: Medieval and South Pacific Art", organized at the Brimo gallery in Laroussilhe, with the gallery Voyageurs et curieux, in New-York, from May 2 to 13, 2017. A selection of works from Oceania and medieval art.

Editions : Voyageurs & curious
Color Photographs
Condition : NEW
Language: English
Number of pages: 60
Dimensions: 215 x 280 mm
Paperback

This book is the catalog of the exhibition "Archipel Bismarck", organized from September 12 to October 6, 2011, at the gallery Voyageurs & curieux.

Author: Jean-Edouard Carlier
Editions : Travelers & curious
Color and black and white photographs
Condition : NEW
Language : French
Number of pages: 171
Dimensions: 285 x 220 mm
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New Guinea, located northeast of Australia, is one of the largest islands in the world. Jean-Edouard Carlier invites us, in this book, to explore it.

Author : Jean-Edouard Carlier
Editions : Travelers & curious
Color and black and white photographs by Hughes Dubois
Condition : NEW
Language : French
Number of pages: 160
Dimensions: 285 x 200 mm
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The term "Micronesia" or "small islands", as well as the delimitation of the boundaries of this region, were proposed to the Société de la Géographie de Paris in 1831 by Jules Dumont d'Urville. Micronesia comprises a multitude of archipelagos and isolated islands that are essentially spread out in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It covers more than 7 million square kilometers of ocean for only 2500 square kilometers of land. It is composed from west to east of the Marianas, Palu, Carolinas, Marshall, Narau and Kiribati archipelagos.

Author: Jean-Edouard Carlier
Editions : Travelers & curious
Color and black and white photographs by Hughes Dubois
Condition : NEW
Language : French
Number of pages: 135
Dimensions: 285 x 200 mm

This magnificent work presents seventy works from an important private collection, gathered over more than forty years with discipline, curiosity and passion. It is one of the most beautiful collections of art from West and Central Africa, as far away as South Africa and Madagascar.
Conceived around four major themes - governing and transmitting, protecting and caring, coming together (celebrating, praising or condemning), serving, beautifying and ennobling - this selection is accompanied by a general introduction to the question of African art and a deepening of our knowledge of the cultures to which these works owe their existence. The superb photographs of the seventy pieces in the first part of the publication are followed by a chapter devoted to some of the great avant-garde ...

If the history of Josette and Jean-Claude Weill's collection begins with painting, their passionate quest for new forms quickly leads them to embrace the infinite diversity of the early arts. Matured over the decades, under the enthusiastic eye of their son Jean-Pierre, their collection today includes more than 120 works of the highest order, from the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. Several large ensembles are taking shape, reflecting the Weill family's inclination for bold, expressionist forms: Dogon and tellem statues combining geometric shapes and textured surfaces, but also kongo power figures adorned with their magical charge. The collection also gives pride of place to expressive arts from Nigeria, Cameroon and Melanesia. Among the most classical works are iconic pieces - ...

Kifwebe masks are animated by a "supernatural life" linked to their unique hybridity where man, animal and spirit merge; a mixture that reflects the mystical essence of the Songye and Luba of the southeastern region of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Combining the pulsation of a linear network of striated patterns with the powerful expression of multiple emotions, their fixed gaze imposes an inflexible presence. However, they are much more than their appearance - their essence is fulfilled in ritual and dance. For some time now, art historians and anthropologists have been paying increasing attention to them. This book proposes a new exploration of the masked tradition of the kifwebe based on a thorough study of Woods Davy's exceptional California collection.

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The kifwebe mask is a ceremonial object of the Songye and Luba societies (Democratic Republic of Congo), where it is worn with a long costume and a long beard made of vegetable fiber. As in other Central African cultures, the same mask can be used in magical-religious or festive celebrations. To understand the kifwebe masks, one must relate them to the cosmogony of the rainbow python, the work of the forge and other plant and animal signs.
Among the Songye, the benevolent female masks reveal what is hidden and balance the white and red energies related to two successive initiations, the bukishi. Aggressive male masks were originally concerned with the control of society and acted as a police force following instructions given by village elders. These two male and female forces ...

This book reveals the artistic production of the vast group of islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, a region of the South Seas located in the volcanic fire belt of Western Melanesia, divided into four main geographical and cultural areas: New Ireland, New Britain, the Admiralty Islands and the Western Islands. It is an art made of natural materials such as plant fiber, light woods, bark cloth and tree heart. This fragility associated with the use of bright colors has largely inspired German Expressionism and Surrealism. Art of the Bismarck Archipelago is divided into three main parts: a first essay on Bart Van Bussel's most recent photographic explorations of cultural traditions and traditional dance in New Ireland and New England today; a second on the historical period of exchange and ...

This book reveals the artistic production of the vast group of islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, a region of the South Seas located in the volcanic fire belt of Western Melanesia, divided into four main geographical and cultural areas: New Ireland, New Britain, the Admiralty Islands and the Western Islands. It is an art made of natural materials such as plant fiber, light woods, bark fabric and tree heart. This fragility associated with the use of bright colors has largely inspired German expressionism and surrealism. Art of the Bismarck Archipelago is divided into three main parts: a first essay on Bart Van Bussel's most recent photographic explorations of cultural traditions and traditional dance in New Ireland and New England today; a second on the historical period of exchange and ...

"Masks of the Congo: Masterpieces of Central Africa" explores masks and masking phenomena in the vast and culturally diverse region of the Congo Basin. This scholarly book describes the many facets of ritual masking ceremonies in this vast region, where masks are objects of courtesy, teaching, and entertainment. (...) For the occasion, a number of new illustrated maps were drawn, clearly indicating the approximate area in which each of the 140 masks presented in the exhibition was made, used or collected.

Edited by Marc Leo Felix
Status: NEW
Language: English
Number of pages: 392
Dimensions: 295x 230 mm
Brocketed
ISBN : 978-0300238754

The Baga, along with the Nalu and Landuma, are rice-growing populations settled along the coast of Guinea in West Africa. They have become universally known since the end of the 19th century thanks to their remarkable sculptures discovered by explorers, colonial administrators, ethnologists, collectors and art dealers.
Today, Baga art objects are admired in public and private collections in northern countries. They are mainly wooden masks of various natures, statues, statuettes but also superb percussion instruments, chiefs' seats and other skillfully carved utilitarian objects. In the past, these sacred objects were designed and used within the framework of the ancient Baga religious beliefs, based on the presentification of divine entities, cults dedicated to ancestors, rites of ...

The We live in the forests of the western border of Ivory Coast. Their name means "men who are easily forgiving". In the social life of this people, the family unit plays an important role. Each family is led by a patriarch, revered for his wisdom and wealth, who is responsible for overseeing the life of the clan. He organizes weddings, settles conflicts and influences religious life.
Long referred to by other names (Guere, Wobe, Kran), the We live on either side of the border between Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire - and are therefore considered, in both countries, as a "peripheral" population. They are a civilization of masks, at the antipodes of other societies that do not have them (such as the Ashanti in Ghana).
Their masks, however, by their plastic boldness, were among ...

An essential and fascinating panorama of the Kuba people, the Democratic Republic of Congo and its art, illustrated by sixty particularly representative pieces.
This book brings together for the first time the most remarkable specimens of Kuba sculpture and decorative arts, mostly wooden objects from the world's greatest museums and private collections.
While the royal figures (ndop) of the Kuba people are considered to be the most finished sculptures in all of sub-Saharan Africa, historically the Kuba have produced very few statues. On the one hand, they are dedicated to an unprecedented variety of decorative arts, used as indicators of success and achievement. They have also produced a large quantity of masks and other objects related to initiation rituals, associated with ...

Les Baule, located in the center of the Ivory Coast, possess an extremely diversified art, in almost every category of objects, as if each utilitarian element was a source of creation. While neighboring peoples often limit themselves to sculpting masks, and others, only statuettes, the Baule once possessed doors, spoons, pulleys, decorated drums, and they knew how to take advantage of the smallest utensils: Seats, amulets, slingshots... An artistic abundance that is also reflected in the way in which all the materials were used: wood, fabric, metal, gold... And very often it is the most humble works of art that are also the strongest in terms of aesthetics.
Interest in this art was, moreover, compared to other regions of Africa, very early in Europe, from the beginning of the 20th ...

This beautiful book is the catalog of an exhibition that took place from December 12, 2001 to August 4, 2002 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Color and black and white photographs
Status: NEW
Language: English
Number of pages: 79
Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm
Brocketed
ISBN : 978-0300203608

Oceania is a world relatively unknown from far away Europe, except for large lands like Australia or New Zealand, fully integrated into the Western world. For the rest, the geography of Oceania is difficult to master: a few thousand islands hardly representative on planispheres or world maps, lost in the immensity of the ocean. It is rather paradoxical that this vast maritime territory has been called the 5th "continent". But links constantly rewoven by incessant travel between the islands ensure this unity. History is no less there than elsewhere, during which societies with extremely rich contents, inherited from the superimposition of migratory waves and repeated exchanges, will blossom. The result is a mosaic that one might find complex, but which is no more complex than the profusion ...