Tribal Art

This rare work, published in 1966, is written by William Fagg, at the time curator of the Department of Ethnography at the Britich Museum. This is the second volume.

Author: William Fagg
Editions: Fernand Hazan
Condition: used, good
Language: French
Number of pages: 65

Size: 150 x 110mm
Paperback

The book LES SIFFLETS BAKONGO LOWER WHISTLES written by BERTIL SÖDERBERG . A work dedicated to the “nsiba” these small horns of dwarf antelopes, surmounted by a character, an animal, or a non-figurative object. These objects are very rare in collections and in museums. Limited edition of 500 copies.

Author: BERTIL SÖDERBERG
Editions: ALAIN LECOMTE
Condition: second hand, overall good condition, slight ripples on the pages
Language: French - English
Number of pages: 192
Dimensions: 250 x 310mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 9782954416700

Alain Lecomte Gallery
Published on the occasion of an exhibition presented by the Galerie Abla et Alain Lecomte (Paris VIème) during the Parcours des Mondes 2018 event, from September 11 to 16, 2018. " Abla and Alain Lecomte loyal to their passion for sacred objects have carefully prepared a thematic exhibition on the theme of medicine and magic. We find ourselves far away, in a world where the form protected, where the form judged, where the form danced. Masks of Komo of the Bambara, "Amuin fetishes of the Baoulé, masks of the Kouranko, Toma and Loma, full of mystery and the patina of time. " 56 pieces reproduced in color, full page and full bleed. For each object: description, origin, dimensions and collection. A few short texts from the authors complete this information. ...

Illustrated with over 400 beautifully photographed pieces from one of the world's largest private collections and published in a large and lavish folio, Indonesian Tribal Sculpture promises to be one of the the most important ever published on the subject. The artwork, collected by Boston's Rodger Dashow over a 30-year period, includes not only many previously unseen pieces, but also rarely seen types of sculpture. The book also contains groundbreaking material, including an introduction by Andrew Gurevich and Robert Walker, President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, on the relevance of the work of this philosopher and best-selling author in the field of tribal studies. Bruce W. Caprenter, author and co-author of over twenty titles on Indonesian art, history and culture, provides the ...

Northwest Coast Indian art is famous for its spectacular totem poles, house posts, feast dishes, boxes and painted house facades. Less known but equally important is the art of shamans, especially those of the Tlingit, Tsimshian and Haida tribes. This volume presents the first comprehensive illustrated survey of the various types of painted and carved objects that were worn by shamans in the performance of their duties. In order to form alliances with animal spirits, shamans on the northwest coast deprived themselves of food, water and sleep during long vigils in nature. The spirits that then appeared to them in dreams and visions could then be invoked to help them heal and participate in divinatory sessions. Much of the ceremonial paraphernalia depicts helping spirits serving the shaman. ...

Bamana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculptures and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African objects in the famous Menil collection. This astonishing book, the first complete catalog of the African art collection of the de Menil family, presents 115 of the most beautiful pieces of the museum. Dating mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, these works come from North Africa and the Sahel, coastal West Africa, Central Africa and East Africa.

Author: Kristina Van Dyke
Editions: The Menil Collection
Condition: used, like new
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Dimensions: 260 x 300mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300123760

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 voyage around the world of the Korrigane (1934-1936) takes place in the context teeming with ethnographic explorations and scientific discoveries of the interwar period: solitary navigations by Alain Gerbault (1923-1929), "Croisière black" (1924-1925) and "Yellow cruise" (1931), Dakar-Djibouti mission (1933). Five people are behind the chartering of the yacht Korrigane for this long-haul voyage: Etienne and Monique de Ganay, Charles and Régine van den Broek and Jean Ratisbonne. Young, rich, in love with adventure, but very informed, they enjoyed the scientific backing due to the letters of recommendation given by Dr. Paul Rivet, who was then active in the creation of the new Musée de l'Homme. A large part of the ethnographic objects and photographs brought back from this trip will be ...

Exhibition catalog Former Nonciature Brussels, June 2016

Author: Bernard de Grunne
Condition: used, like new
Language: French
Number of pages: 95
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-2-931108-06-2

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 ...

The Stars Are Eyes, A New Look at Abelam Art

Author: Marc Assayag
Condition: used, like new
Language: French
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0991977536

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 ...

This catalog accompanies the first major exhibition on the Himalayan Masks. Encompassing all the religious influences of the region, animist and shamanic, Hindu or Buddhist, covering the entire Himalayan area starting from Ladakh to Indian Kashmir, Nepal, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh as well as Tibet, this work presents a complete panorama of the masks of this part of the world. It brings together more than 200 pieces from major private collections or famous institutions, such as the Musée Barbier-Muëller in Geneva or the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. Little represented until recently in museums, Himalayan masks have retained their mysteries. Unlike the African or Oceanian masks which from the 18th century adorned the cabinets of curiosities of scholars of the Age of Enlightenment and ...

The tribal art of the Himalayas in private collections
Author: Alain Bovis

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