Tribal Art

The book, abundantly illustrated, offers representative works of art of the Luba of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This publication develops, among the major themes, the role of visual and performance arts as well as the instrumentalization of royal insignia in the framework of the traditional Luba politics. The text also explains the symbolism of images of women, the femininity of the king, problem solving and healing processes. Finally, it discusses the phenomenon of the use of art objects in the creation and transmission of historical knowledge both in the heart of the Luba country and in its periphery. Case studies observed in the course of the authors' extensive field research shed light on the philosophical system underlying the thinking and visual expression of the ...

Tribal art and textiles in Southeast Asia
. Ceremonial textiles play a central role in many Southeast Asian cultures, where weaving is the primary form of creative and artistic activity, especially among the Iban and their neighbors, the Kantu, Ketungau, and Mualang. This book presents an unparalleled selection of these fabrics, collected by Heribert Amann during more than thirty years of travel and research. Richly illustrated, it features examples of most types of textiles, revealing impressive sophistication, a wide variety of techniques and incredible creativity. Photographs by renowned German photographer Hedda Morrison illustrate the context and significance of these superb fabrics.

Edited by Heribert Amann Editions : Five Continents
Condition : LIKE NEW

This book is the first to pay a deserved tribute to the richness and diversity of Madagascar's traditional artistic production. In all fields, from life here below to the afterlife, passing through an in-between dedicated to magic and divination, Malagasy artists have expressed their imagination and know-how. Sometimes the sculptors' creations are unique and unusual, in the image of their incomparable island, sometimes they draw their inspiration from the Austronesian, African, Indian or Arab populations that winds and favorable currents have carried, over the centuries, to this land of encounters. Whether they are everyday objects, magical charms or funerary statues, these works have aroused great interest among the first European observers, whose written or iconographic testimonies ...

Fascinating in its form and formidable in the beauty that emanates from it, Songye statuary is inhabited by a strength, a power and a breath of air unequalled in Central Africa. In the creation of Songye statuary, three contributions complement each other: those of the blacksmith, the sculptor and the "nganga". Their actions combine to transform the sculptures into active, effective and eminently formidable forces. We find an unsuspected dimension going back to the very sources of the peoples of Central Africa. The human being confronts the energies of the universe and, through an esoteric teaching, generates a new social and political culture. The effigies remain silent witnesses of this mutation. In this book, nearly a thousand statues and statuettes have been gathered and studied with ...

This book is presented in two volumes. The first one tells the life story of the Brussels gallery owner Pierre Dartevelle, his travels, his encounters and his passion for extra-European art. The second deals exhaustively with the objects of his collection of tribal art, accompanied by descriptive texts and photographs of Valérie Dartevelle, his daughter.

Author: Pierre Dartevelle
Edition: Five Continents
Condition: new
Language: French
Number of pages: 1076
Dimensions: 250 x 300 mm
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ISBN : 978-88-7439-812-6

An ode to the treasures of the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva, newly installed in a remarkable architecture, this work is the extension of its reference exhibition. Designed as a beautiful book, at the same time a catalog of the MEG's collections, it invites you to travel across the five continents through objects and musical recordings, to explore human creativity in all its diversity. Combining approaches specific to anthropology, archeology and art history, he is interested in the principles and values that drive a society, in ways of thinking, in the dynamics of change, in approaches of creation and the relationships that are sometimes woven between the natural and cultural worlds or between expressive registers of different natures (sound/visual). The chosen works, photographed by ...

Richly illustrated with more than a hundred color reproductions, "Inuit art in celebration 1948 - 1970" is an impressive photographic tribute to an art form virtually unknown fifty years ago, but which now regularly appears in major exhibitions around the world. A product of economic necessity, Inui art has captured the imagination of art lovers since 1949, when it was first exhibited. "Inuit art in celebration 1948 - 1970" presents sculptures from the period when the Inuit of Canada abandoned their nomadic life to settle in small villages all over the Arctic. During this tumultuous period, in a society threatened by acculturation, art played a crucial social role in remembering and expressing the rich oral history of this culture.

Author: Maria von Finckenstein

Between 1900 and 1930, Paris was the capital of the world. More exactly, Montmartre on the right bank, Montparnasse on the left bank. Here and there, on both sides of the Seine, extraordinary troublemakers invented modern art. The first of them came to France at the turn of the century: Pablo Picasso. He gathered around him the painters and poets of the time, all understanding that he was a genius for brushes, one of the greatest of history to come. His friends are called Max Jacob, Apollinaire, Gris, Vlaminck, Braque, Derain, Kahnweiler...

Author: Dan Franck
Editions: Mengès
Condition: NEW
Language: French
Number of pages: 160
Dimensions: 240 x 170mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-2856204719

"In 1906, tribal sculpture was 'discovered' by 20th century artists; these objects had suddenly become relevant due to changes in the very nature of modern art. These two volumes constitute the first comprehensive scholarly treatment for a half a century of the crucial influence of tribal arts - particularly those of Africa and Oceania - on modern painters and sculptors.In this visually dazzling and intellectually provocative work, 19 essays address aesthetic, historical and sociological issues complexities posed by this dramatic chapter in the history of modern art. The main body of the book contains a series of essays on primitivism in the works of Gauguin, the Fauves, Picasso, Brancusi, the German Expressionists, Lipchitz, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, Moore, Surrealists and Abstract ...

This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition on the art of Cameroon, from January 27 to March 10, 1979 at The Pace Gallery, London.

Author: Tamara Northern
Editions: Pace Primitive and Ancient Art
Condition: used, good
Language: English
Number of pages: 15
Dimensions: 280 x 220mm
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At the edge of deep rurality, the belief in female entities gave birth to wooden sculptures, entangled in the vines and shadows of the jungle of myths and rites of eternal India.


Author: Julien Hureau
Marc Petit, Chantal Detcherry
Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Number of pages: 178
Dimensions: 250 x 200mm
Paperback
ISBN: 9782958146504

This is the first publication devoted to the Foundation's collection "Forgotten Cultural Treasures", which, in addition to ancient terracottas of the Nok culture, includes superb bronzes from Ife. Sculptures and ritual objects from the ancient empire of Benin as well as precious gold jewelery from the Akan groups of Ghana are other masterpieces that testify to the excellence of the craftsmanship of West African cultures. . The collection is complemented by gold weights in the form of imaginative miniature sculptures depicting human and animal motifs and used to weigh gold dust. Until now, objects from this cultural area could only be loosely placed in a chronological and stylistic context. Thanks to the most modern research techniques, it is now possible to assign scientifically ...

This rare work by André Blandin covers "400 African objects for everyday life, and for music, games, parade, hunting, war and other activities".

Author: André Blandin
Condition: used, very good
French language
Number of pages: 57
Dimensions: 300 x 210mm
Paperback
ISBN: 2/9503321/2/9

A book of art and words, this work has the lightness of time passing like a conversation, and the weight of a lost memory, which is found again. That of Morocco where Jews and Muslims were side by side, in life and in art. 120 collector's items in four-colour process. Through their singular conversation, two collectors trace a path towards the memory of Morocco, broken among Jews and Muslims alike. It still exists, intact, in these objects fashioned with love, and collected today in the same spirit. Diversity, tradition, sharing, segregation and everything that touches human nature are expressed in this craft, which is particularly rich and creative. Khalid El Gharib and Paul Dahan, one Muslim, the other Jewish, both born in Fez twenty years apart, invite us to share the adventure of ...

It was the time when the gods hid in the trees, the demons in the storms, the geniuses at the bottom of the backwaters. Spirits, seizing all life when they wanted, roamed the forests, savannahs and fire-breathing mountains. It was the time of dread, fear and horror when man did not know how to be forgiven for an original fault of which he knew nothing. One day, man invented fetishes and masks; the mask danced, the fetish spoke to the gods, to the spirits, to the geniuses. They interceded for man with the forces of good and evil and balance was established on Earth. This book is a journey and a discovery. Olivier Martel, in the 1990s, traveled through Agni country, in the south-east of the Ivory Coast, a kingdom of fetishes and animist high priestesses: the Comians. These women in trances ...

African art from the Colette Brissaud-Mendes collection
The Colette Brissaud-Mendes collection - for the first time presented to the public - will allow you to discover an unknown world, yet rich in abundant iconography. Terracottas inspired by Batcham, Mambila, Mangbetu, Yoruba etc...

Author: Philippe Brissaud (
Editions: Actes Sud
Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Number of pages: 134
Dimensions: 210 x 160mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-2742776153

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art and held at the following venues: Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (November 1, 1998 - January 3, 1999); Baltimore Museum of Art (June 13 - September 5, 1999); The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (October 24, 1999 – January 16, 2000).

Author: Gary van Wyk
Editions: Prestel Pub
Condition: used, very good
Language: English
Number of pages: 151
Dimensions: 300 x 240mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-3791319971

"Racho is a man from Dirédoua near Harar in Ethiopia. His great-grandmother, an Amhara woman of a certain elegance, lived a brief and discreet idyll with Rimbaud during the latter's second stay in Harar. Following the famine due to the war and drought problems raging in Ethiopia, Racho's family went into exile in the Gulf of Guinea. Like Rimbaud, Racho has a fertile artistic vein. He is a sculptor and gives new life to the trinkets and trinkets that he picks up at the Autonomous Port of Cototrou. But his art does not meet any academic rules, Racho finds it difficult to be accepted by his peers and to live from his art. He will thus decide to drop everything and go and carry out his life on the continent of his illustrious ancestor in the hope of receiving there, because of his filiation, ...

Catalog of the exhibition held at the Galeries Lafayette from February 22 to March 24, 2001.

Editions: Galeries Lafayette
Condition: used, library book
Language: French
Number of pages: 60
Dimensions: 210 x 210mm
Paperback

At twenty, Arthur Rimbaud had already written Le Bateau ivre, but he believed that "art is stupidity". To the life of a poet, he prefers the existence of an adventurer. From wanderings to extended stays, he went to Java, Cyprus, then settled in Africa where he launched into trade. He lives between Aden and Harar, imports and sells all sorts of things before becoming an arms supplier for the king of Choa, Menelik. It is also for this king that works Alfred Ilg, a Swiss engineer who will end up Prime Minister of the sovereign. The two men met, felt esteem for each other and corresponded from 1888 to 1891, the year in which Rimbaud died of cancer. These thirty-five letters, discovered by Ilg's daughter, are at the both friendly and professional. Written at a time when Arthur Rimbaud had ...

A catalog devoted to the history of lumbu art. The author retraces their continuity and breaks, without forgetting the context of the ritual use of sacred objects during the mukuyi dance for masks or the bouiti rite for reliquary figures. Prestige objects from Kongo history are also analysed: in wood or ivory, they symbolize power.

Author: Charlotte Grand-Dufay
Editions: Gourcuff Gradenigo
Condition: used, very good, dust jacket slightly damaged
Language: French
Number of pages: 256
Dimensions: 310 x 250mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-2353402397