Tribal Art

Ten years ago, Jacques Chirac inaugurated the musée du quai Branly, the creation of which crowned his commitment to the dialogue of cultures. The exhibition that the museum devotes to its founder explores the springs of his cultural personality. It identifies its sources in the intellectual and artistic history of the 20th century. She underlines to what extent the initiatives of the man who was successively mayor of Paris (1977-1995) and president of the Republic (1995-2007) have contributed to renewing the view of the French on distant cultures, while supporting, on the stage internationally, the defense of cultural diversity. This exhibition, and the catalog that accompanies it, also offer a kind of cultural portrait of a man who for a long time, with modesty, tried to hide his passion ...

This book is an essential tool, easy to read, intended to make life easier for those who wish to introduce children to the Primary Arts for pleasure, curiosity and not out of obligation. Designed to be accessible without any particular knowledge of either art or pedagogy, it uses, on the contrary, everyday vocabulary (technical terms are always explained). Its content : 1) Information presented in a clear and concise manner, real food for thought to answer this difficult question: what do we mean by “Primary Arts”? Everything that is not Western, everything that is not tribal, everything that is “exotic”, everything that is artisanal? 2) What is the place of the Primitive Arts in the Western world? Over several centuries, their status has gone from objects of curiosities (during travels ...

Oceania, the usual name for all the islands in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, is an extremely vast territory since it covers one third of the surface of the globe. (...) In Polynesia, and in its archipelagos scattered in the immensity of the Pacific Ocean, art was mainly at the service of the aristocratic elite whose divine ancestry no one disputed.

Author: Frank Herreman
Editions: Mercator Fund
Condition: NEW
Language: French
Number of pages: 184
Dimensions: 300 x 230mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-9061538387

The Barbier-Mueller Museum has invited anthropologist Nigel Barley, former curator of the British Museum, to study the museum's Nigerian collection, the fruit of the personal and informed "eye" of collectors Josef Mueller and Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller for more than a hundred years.
Without claiming to cover exhaustively the cultural production of Nigeria over two millennia of history, the Barbier-Mueller collection is very rich in several aspects. It offers a sample of the production of the major cultural centers of this country by illuminating, in chronological continuity, archaeological pieces from Nok, Katsina and Sokoto, productions from Ife and the Kingdom of Benin, and Yoruba, ijo and igbo objects from the Cross River and the Benue Valley.
Because of their rarity, ...

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Guinea to New Zealand, from Easter Island to Hawaii, the Pacific region called Oceania has long excited the Western imagination, but it is only recently that its traditional sculptures, pots and paintings have been studied and appreciated as art.
While much remains mysterious about these works and the cultures that produced them, we do know that most of the objects were created for use in everyday life rather than as products for the art market. Nevertheless, their beauty and craftsmanship elevate the best of them to the status of objects of contemplation and wonder.
This catalog presents some 80 works of Oceanic art, each illustrated with its described form and function. Michael Gunn's introduction puts the works into context; Christraud ...

Over the centuries, artists in sub-Saharan Africa have commemorated eminent personalities in their societies using a surprisingly varied repertoire of naturalistic and abstract sculptural expressions.
Adopting complex aesthetic formulations, they idealized their subjects but also added specific details, such as rank emblems, scarification patterns and elaborate hairstyles, to evoke the individuals depicted. Imbued with the essence of their formidable subjects, these works played an essential role in reifying links with important ancestors at critical moments of transition. Often, their transmission from one generation to the next was a prerequisite for conferring legitimacy on the leaders who followed them.
Author Alisa LaGamma examines the significant sculptural traditions ...

They are made of stone, bronze, copper, ivory, wood, silver, aluminum, iron, brass... Their epidermis is smooth or lumpy, left bare or covered with a gangue of materials as eclectic as they are improbable... Worrying or serene, minimalist or "baroque", exhibitionist or modest, the "micro" African pieces that Pierluigi Peroni has been collecting for decades all praise the Tiny in their own way.
Illustrated with superb photographs and close-ups on details, Micromonumentality highlights the emblematic value of talismans, weights, boxes, fetishes, pendants, miniatures, jewelry and other objects. None of these two hundred objects exceed fifteen centimeters in height or width and, although practically "microscopic", they are as expressive as larger works and deserve to be considered as ...

They are made of stone, bronze, copper, ivory, wood, silver, aluminum, iron, brass... Their epidermis is smooth or lumpy, left bare or covered with a gangue of materials too. eclectic than improbable... Worrying or serene, minimalist or "baroque", exhibitionist or modest, the "micro" African pieces that Pierluigi Peroni has been collecting for decades all praise the Tiny in their own way. Illustrated with stunning photography and close-ups of detail, Micromonumentality highlights the iconic value of talismans, weights, boxes, fetishes, pendants, miniatures, jewelry and other objects. None of these two hundred objects exceeds fifteen centimeters in height or width and, although practically "microscopic", they are as expressive as larger works and deserve to be considered as "monuments" in ...

African art in the Congo
In this book, Congolese and Belgian authors look together for the first time at the historical ties between Antwerp and the Congo. These well-documented contributions tell a shared and sometimes painful story.
The links between Antwerp and Africa go back to the 16th century, when the first commercial relations were established, before continuing through the period of colonisation of the Congo, until today. Buildings, monuments and street names of the Scaldian city continue to remind us of this past.
At the same time, Belgian colonization and missions undeniably influenced Congolese cultures. One hundred years ago, in the middle of the colonial era, these Congolese works of art and utilitarian objects came into the possession of the City of ...

Fetishes in African art among the Bakongo
First monograph devoted to the min-kisi - min-kondi of the Bakongo peoples, better known as "nail fetishes". These statuettes are a symbiosis between aesthetic power and magic, a mixture of aesthetic power and mysterious strength, aggressiveness and tranquility. Mainly located in a geographical area ranging from Western Congo-Brazza and Western Congo Kinshasa, to Cabinda, and Northwest Angola. These "fetishes" have been during the past centuries, feared by the Europeans, who saw in them an obstacle to their conquest and evangelization .

Limited edition of 700 copies, this one has the N°121

. Status: NEW
Authors: Raoul Lehuard, Alain Lecomte, Kovo N'Sondé, Jean N'Sondé.
Number of pages: 432

Werken, volkeren en culturen van Ivoorkust
The challenges of this publication are to highlight the deep unity that binds the so diverse peoples of Côte d'Ivoire and to show how their varied cultures find their sources in the very heart of the country and beyond its borders. The grandiose beauty and formidable strength of the sculptures speak for themselves and express the astonishing richness of the arts of Côte d'Ivoire, which goes beyond its borders but finds there an exceptional place of expression. This book presents an initiatory journey, recapitulating the great cultural moments of the Ivory Coast and facilitating the understanding of a multiple cultural world: geographical framework, population, presentation of historical data (maps, migrations), illustration of the most ...

For the great travelers of the 16th to early 19th century, the exploration of the Pacific Islands had been an exceptional adventure, for de Queiros, Cook, La Pérouse, Bougainville and Dumont d'Urville who had braved these unknown seas to discover what they believed to be paradise.
Today, the traveler can follow in their footsteps, yet many aspects of these island cultures remain as unfamiliar as they once were. Among these unfamiliar aspects, one of the most interesting is the extraordinary artistic wealth created by the inhabitants of these islands.
The Oceanic world covers thousands of islands, from immense New Guinea to simple coral atolls. The natives developed more autonomous and varied cultures there than anywhere else in the world. In most of them, the arts hold a ...

The Dogon, who very early occupied the cliffs of Bandiagara in Mali, have ten centuries of existence. From this culture, we know above all the impressive masks and fascinating statuary, while the whole of Dogon plastic creation includes many other pieces, whether religious or for everyday use, with remarkable aesthetics.
This book is intended to help us discover the political, cultural and artistic history of the Dogon people, in all its complexity, and pays homage, through more than 300 masterpieces, to the strength and majesty of Dogon art.

Author: Hélène Leloup
Publisher: Somogony
Condition : excellent
Language : French
Number of pages : 415
Dimensions : 320 x 240 mm
Paperback
ISBN : 978-2757204412

The Dogon, who very early occupied the cliffs of Bandiagara in Mali, have ten centuries of existence. From this culture, we know above all the impressive masks and fascinating statuary, while the whole of Dogon plastic creation includes many other pieces, whether religious or for everyday use, with remarkable aesthetics.
This book is intended to help us discover the political, cultural and artistic history of the Dogon people, in all its complexity, and pays homage, through more than 300 masterpieces, to the strength and majesty of Dogon art.

Author: Hélène Leloup
Publisher: Somogony
Condition: Like new
Language: French
Number of pages: 415
Dimensions: 320 x 240 mm
Bound
ISBN : 978-2757204412

The sculptures in this work, belonging to four stylistic groups from Central Africa - congo, teke, luba and songye - were selected for their beauty with the aim of privileging the sculpted signs attached to magic and sorcery.
The text and the photographs give these works an original lighting that guides the eye and allows to discover the sublime, the seduction or the magical, the unknown, the fear. As the collector wanted, this work goes off the beaten track, invites us to leave our preconceived ideas about understanding or not understanding African arts, to open up to universal and infinite dimensions.

Authors: François Neyt and Hugues Dubois
Color photographs
Condition: new
Language: French and English
Number of pages: 259
Dimensions: ...

This book is a window on the arts of the great island of Oceania in the Barbier-Muller collections. It is the catalog of the exhibition "Shadows of New Guinea - Arts of the Great Island of Oceania", organized from November 20, 2007 to March 31, 2008 and presenting some two hundred pieces from the Barbier-Mueller collection.

Authors : Joshua A. Bell, Harry Beran, Ludovic Coupaye, Ingrid Heermann, Anita Herle, Anna-Karina Hermkens, Christian Kaufmann, Pieter Ter Keurs, Don Niles, Philippe Peltier, Dirk Smidt.
Publishers: Philipphe Peltier & Floriane Morin
Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva
Editions: Somogy
19 maps, 378 color and black and white illustrations
Condition: although without its dust jacket, in excellent condition
Language: French
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This book presents portraits of donors and donations to the musée du quai Branly from 2006 to 2016, through interviews conducted by Bernard Géniès.

Edited by Yves Le Fur
Quai Branly Museum
Editions : Xavier Barral
Color and black and white photographs
Condition: like new
Language : French
Number of pages: 235
Dimensions: 310 x 245 mm
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ISBN : 978-2357441033

The Bamana (also called Bambara), a powerful ethnic group in West Africa, are part of the Mande culture. The sacred is omnipresent among the Bamana and their artistic tradition is extremely rich and diverse. Indeed, any plastic creation puts into action a complex network of values, anchored in a system of thought and a way of life that only anthropological field research can attempt to approach and study. To put the works in their local context, the book reviews youth initiations and funerals, the functioning of agricultural mutual aid groups and other large initiatory societies reserved for adults, while emphasizing the aesthetic qualities of these works. For these aesthetic qualities are essential criteria of appreciation that the Bamana seek so that their religious or political powers ...

African Baga art
Baga Religious Memories offers a reflection on cultural transmission and its mechanisms in Africa. Once, the Baga of Guinea-Conakry were talented mask carvers and powerful ritualists known for their male initiation societies. Dimba, a colossal wooden female bust, and the Bansonyi serpentine mask, among others, are testament to their religious history and are now among the masterpieces of African art. With the arrival of Islam and Catholicism, these societies of maritime Guinea have been profoundly transformed, but they also remain heirs to their past. In the absence of initiations and sacred forests, many elements of the ritual edifice of yesteryear have persisted to this day. In the pages of this book, the reader is led to explore the past uses of Baga objects, ...

African Baga Art
Baga Religious Memories offers a reflection on cultural transmission and its mechanisms in Africa. Once, the Baga of Guinea-Conakry were talented mask carvers and powerful ritualists known for their male initiation societies. Dimba, a colossal wooden female bust, and the Bansonyi serpentine mask, among others, are testament to their religious history and are now among the masterpieces of African art. With the arrival of Islam and Catholicism, these societies of maritime Guinea have been profoundly transformed, but they also remain heirs to their past. In the absence of initiations and sacred forests, many elements of the ritual edifice of yesteryear have persisted to this day. Throughout the pages of this book, the reader is led to explore the past uses of baga ...

A vast inland sea, the floodplain of the Sepik and Ramu river systems in Papua New Guinea remains one of the most intact on the planet. The inhabitants of the Sepik-Ramu region, who represent a large part of the more than 700 different language groups living on the second largest island on the planet, have created in this tranquil environment an exceptional work of art that constitutes an extremely important part of the cultural heritage of mankind.

Authors: Kevin Conru, Virgina Lee-Webb, Chrispin Howarth & Barry Craig
Editions: Conru
Photographs by Hughes Dubois
Condition: NEW
Language: English
Number of pages: 296
Dimensions: 360 x 280 mm
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ISBN : 9781733007801