Tribal Art

The work "Dogon" constitutes the catalog of the eponymous exhibition, organized at the Dapper Museum, from 10/16/1994 to 03/13/1995.

Author: collective
Editions: Dapper Museum
Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Number of pages: 285
Dimensions: 320 x 230mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-2906067295

"Finding a decapitated Englishman's head on a beach in Biarritz: it's messy. Especially since other severed heads painted red are appearing all over the city. All these victims are apparently innocent African art collectors, Nok heads..."

Author: Pierre Cherruau
Editions: Ecailler de Sud
Condition: used, library book
French language
Number of pages: 242
Dimensions: 170 x 110mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-2914264495

This catalog designed as an introduction to African art offers more than 200 objects (masks, statuettes, statues, fetishes) from West Africa, Central Africa, Nigeria and the Cameroon as well as Mauritanian coffers. Having come down to us desacralized, these works nevertheless seem to have preserved, beyond their moving aesthetic value, their precious power; these pieces had, in the past, a magical and social role, and plunge the visitor into a mysterious world where magic reigns.

Author: Patrick Sargos & Catherine Sargos
Editions: Hazan
Condition: used, like new
Language: French
Number of pages: 336
Dimensions: 290 x 250mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-2754104760

General work on traditional African art as well as contemporary painting, published in 1969.

Author: Dennis Duerden
Publisher: O.D.E.G.E
Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Number of pages: 51
Dimensions: 270x240mm
Hardcover

One of the great merits of this work is to approach the arts of black Africa in a thematic way. Capital importance of religion and magic, belief granted to omnipresent occult forces, ancestral cults accompanied by sacrifices, funeral rites, initiation ceremonies, masked dances, power of secret societies, desire for prestige of chiefs, desire for adornment or the search for beauty for the most humble objects, such are the deep sources of traditional African art. In this context, the artist in charge of creating the essential works had only relative freedom. But what a result! A careful aesthetic analysis shows how brilliantly the problems have been solved: finds of forms, audacity in conceptualization, evocative shortcuts; it is no coincidence that African art has had such a profound ...

Dating for the most part from the 19th century, the most beautiful African objects that we present here testify to the wealth of choices and aesthetic and technical solutions developed by more than a hundred ethnic groups, spread from Guinea to Kenya, and from Mali to Africa. from South. In each tribe, plastic creation manifests itself in all acts of life decorated and sculpted objects of daily life, ornaments, weapons, musical instruments... But for the sake of consistency and understanding, it seemed obvious to us that 'we had to approach the subject in a thematic way: the living environment (furniture), the arts of conviviality (receptacles and spoons), the use of color (beaten bark and fabrics), ornaments, combat weapons and prestige of great chefs. Looking at the large number of ...

General work on African art, first published in 1975.

Author: Johannes Nicolaisen & Jens Yde
Publisher: G. Kogan/Berghaus Verlag
Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Dimensions: 330 x 250mm
Hardcover

A perfect introduction to African art, in all its diversity. Rather than going in search of African art, this book, in a clear and accessible text, seeks to understand what is the presence of art in Africa.

Author: Ivan Bargna & Fabienne Andrea Costa
Publisher: Editions du Rouergue Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Number of pages: 70
Dimensions: 290 x 200mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-2841569199

Arman, an American artist of French origin, owes his notoriety to the general public to his own works. However, for more than forty years, it has built up an exceptional collection of African art, both in terms of the number and the quality of the pieces from many African countries. The catalog of the exhibition "Arman and African art" presents for the first time a selection of 200 of these works. The book also allows, through an original interview, to understand the springs of the passion of a lifetime.

Author: collective
Edition: Meeting of National Museums
Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Number of pages: 279
Dimensions: 300 x 230mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-2711834402

The Unpublished Masterpieces of Black Africa exhibition was held from October 1987 to May 1988 at the Dapper Museum (50, avenue Victor Hugo). Unpublished Masterpieces of Black Africa constitutes a panorama of the major arts that flourished in sub-Saharan Africa from the 5th century BC to the 19th century. We can find certain works there, such as masks, terracotta, bronze heads, crest sculptures or goblets.

Author: collective
Publisher: Dapper Foundation
Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Number of pages: 320
Size: 320x250mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 9782040129415

"Negro art? Don't know!" said Picasso in 1920. It is true that African art was only discovered late, at the beginning of the century, by a few artists and intellectuals such as Picasso, Apollinaire or Derain and it was then only appreciated for its sculptural qualities. However, African objects were brought back and then exhibited in ethnographic museums, created following the universal exhibitions, from the beginning of colonization towards the second half of the 19th century. But it was not until the 1930s and the writings of authors such as Michel Leiris, the missions of ethnologists and above all the field work undertaken by Marcel Griaule in Mali among the Dogon, to discover the hidden dimension - religious or social - of these objects to restore their meaning. Today, major ...

The Musée d'Orsay, devoted to the art of the second half of the 19th century, is housed in this historic place that is the former Gare d'Orsay, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. Its large metal vault, designed by the architect Victor Laloux, offered a privileged place for the sculpture because the light there is changing and the space pleasant for the public. It was therefore there that it was exhibited, emerging from a long purgatory in the cellars of museums or public administrations. Since the inauguration of the museum in 1986, remarkable purchases have made it possible to complete the collections. In this work, one hundred and fifty of the most beautiful works are gathered by currents: Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Electism, Realism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Primitivism, and ...

Oceania is a "sea of islands" scattered across the Pacific. The absence of continuity of the lands which characterizes it has however never prevented the establishment of ongoing relations between the peoples. Oceanian art testifies to this tradition of exchanges: the objects respond both to the canons specific to each culture, but also feed on external contributions from other islands as well as from the West. Until today where, conversely, the works of artists like John Mawurndjul, rooted in the Aboriginal mythological universe, are a reference in the world of contemporary art. This "art of relationship" is the guiding thread of the work, which revolves around five fundamental themes: navigation and exchanges, places of power, ancestors and gods, the living and the dead, the envelopes ...

"The success of Negro art reached its peak in the "Roaring Twenties" with the Decorative Arts Exhibition of 1925 and the Colonial Exhibition of 1931. These exhibitions related mainly to the plastic expression of primitive black culture. , animist and fetishist.Equally rich is the oral literature in which a relationship with the traditions of primitive white civilizations is discovered.In the Negro Anthology, Blaise Cendrars has collected the best of these stories: legends concerning the creation of animals and men, marvelous tales, humorous or poetic fables and fabliaux borrowed from the folklore of the many empires and tribes of the vast African territory."

Author: Blaise Cendrars
Edition: The Pocket Book
Condition: used, very good
Language: French

At the turn of the first two centuries, the encounter with Negro art awakened European art at a time when it was dying of a slow amnesia; but his entry into the museum also ignited the war between aesthetics and anthropology. The vehemence and recurrence of such discord first demanded a critique and the statement of rigorous criteria allowing us to locate ourselves in a new landscape. But the taste for the simplest and the most archaic, the tenacious digging down to the material and maternal heart of things that characterize what is called the "first arts", continue to work Contemporary Art, to the point of constituting, can -to be, more insistent than the others, a sign of the times. The African continent still remained for many "a big hole on the map of the world" (Sartre) is ...

Revealing the powers specific to works considered for a long time in the West as simply exotic or abstract, Constantin Petridis updates literally engraved in the sculpture, the forces which allow the world of the spirits to intervene in daily life. Exhibition organized by The Menil Collection in Houston (United States) from September 26, 2008 to January 4, 2009 then at the Cleveland Museum of Art (United States) from June 27, 2009 to September 13, 2009.

Author: Constantin Petridis
Publisher: Actes Sud
Condition: NEW
Language: French
Number of pages: 160
Dimensions: 300 x 250mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-2742779215

Frans M. Olbrechts founded the sylistic study of African art. He was one of the first to identify an individual artist's hand. He also laid the foundations for the discipline known today as the "anthropology of art".

Author: Frans M. Olbrechts
Publisher: Etnografisch Museum Antwerpen
Condition: used, like new
Language: English
Number of pages: 325
Size: 210 x 300mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-9077069011

"Column to Volume: Formal Innovation in Chamba Statuary" studies the appearance on world art markets in the 1970s of statues identified as Chamba, originating from West Africa . Sought after for their artistic execution, these statues were stylistically different from anything previously documented in the region. Are they what the art market claimed? To answer these questions, Richard Fardon and Christine Stelzig had to combine the results of ethnographic research in Cameroon and Nigeria with research in museums and archives, as well as with the testimonies of art dealers and collectors. Deeply illustrated, "Column to Volume" offers a comprehensive account of an important sculptural tradition in West Africa, as well as fascinating insights into the tribal marking, distribution and copying ...

African art from Nigeria
This reference work on the Esie stone works of Nigeria is written by Phillips Stevens, Jr., with a foreword by Frank Willett.

Author: Phillips Stevens, Jr.
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Pub
Condition: used, very good
Language: English
Number of pages: 398
Dimensions: 230 x 290mm
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-9781210297

The catalog of the exhibition "Native Forests" (from October 3, 2017 to January 28, 2018 at the musée du quai Branly) testifies to the diversity of the artistic production of the populations of Gabon and its surroundings. It tells how a whole vocabulary, both oral and visual, resulting from a history woven from multiple contacts, was created in the forests of Atlantic equatorial Africa. Following a north-south route, the book shows how the link between the "mobility" of styles of works and that of peoples is widely attested, not only by oral traditions but also by the forms of the works themselves. -same.

Author: Yves Le Fur
Publisher: Actes Sud Editions
Condition: used, very good
Language: French
Number of pages: 368
Dimensions: 260 x ...

This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Igbo Arts, Community and Cosmos" presented at the Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery in Los Angeles, the Center for African Art in New York, the National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C., at the Birmingham Museum of Art and at the Seattle Art Museum between 1984 and 1986. It was released in conjunction with the 27th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association and in honor of the 25th anniversary of the UCLA Center for African Studies.

Author: Herbert M. Cole
Publisher: University of California Museum Condition: used, good
Language: English
Number of pages: 238
Size: 220 x 280mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-0930741013