Tribal Art

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 ...

The rich and complex history of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso is reflected in the various types and styles of figurines and masks created by them. This people appeared about 1500 years after. A large group of horsemen from the present northern region of Ghana would have gone north, into the Volta valleys, to subjugate the local populations who lived there from agriculture. The descendants of these conquerors established themselves as rulers, and their political art took the form of royal figurines that endorsed their rule. The descendants of the subjected peasants constituted on their side a spiritual class and began to manufacture masks to represent the spirits of nature. The geographical diversity of their styles reflects the differences between the various ethnic groups conquered in ...

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

Motifs d'Océanie is the most exhaustive work on Oceanic art, an art as rich and spectacular as it is little known. Through drawing, it presents with the greatest clarity the richness and diversity of forms and decorative motifs in the Pacific Islands, on materials as diverse as wood, plant fibers, tortoise shell, feathers, mother-of-pearl and the human body with the famous tattoo compositions. From the representation of the world (fauna, flora, gods and cosmos, hybrid or fantastic beings) to that of man and his environment, his structures, his social practices, it covers the whole cultural and anthropological field of the Oceanian peoples. Winner of the International Tribal Art Book Prize, Motifs d'Océanie is the ideal tool to immerse oneself in this universe of fascinating beauty. With ...

Presented in 2011 at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, the Voodoo exhibition unveils for the first time to the public an exceptional group of voodoo works from Benin from the collection of Anne and Jacques Kerchache.
Conceived as an extension of the exhibition, the Voodoo catalog brings together more than 150 photographs taken by Yuji Ono as part of a specific commission. This work also looks back at the atypical career of Jacques Kerchache and his passion for African statuary through numerous documents and personal photographs. On this occasion, his texts on African art and Benin voodoo are published, some of which have remained unpublished until now. Finally, the contributions of specialists such as Marc Augé, Suzanne Preston Blier, Gabin Djimassé or the artist Patrick ...

Fully revised French/English edition with over 500 stunning photographs of the world's most important African masks. This beautiful book was born from the passion and artistic insight of Marnix Neerman and Hugo Martens. One hundred and twenty-eight masks were photographed in such a unique style that their artistic nature is revealed to the fullest. Each mask has been photographed from the front and back, and detail shots reveal each mask as an almost standalone work of art. And yet, these masks are not considered as works of art in their country of origin, but rather as tools with function and meaning in socio-religious life. Many of these masks have never been exhibited or published before and come from reference collections such as the Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, the ...

This book presents Sumba arts and traditions. First, it deals with the culture, beliefs and rites of the people of Sumba Island. In a second part, it constitutes an illustrated catalog of hundreds of common or sacred objects, collected by the authors themselves.

Authors : Véronique Paccou-Martellière & Thomas H. Hinterseer
Editions : Lelivredart
Condition: NEW
Languages: French and English
Number of pages: 198
Dimensions: 290 x 240 mm
Paperback
ISBN : 978-2355322419

Catalog of the exhibition organized from June 10 to July 9, 2011, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the gallery Voyageurs & curieux.

Author : Jean-Edouard Carlier
Editions : Travelers & curious
Color photographs
Condition: NEW
Language: French
Number of pages: 76
Dimensions: 290 x 230 mm
Bound

In this book, Jean-Edouard Carlier invites us to discover the artistic achievements of the peoples of Western Polynesia. Various pieces of tribal art are presented; everyday objects, weapons and jewelry from Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

Author : Jean-Edouard Carlier
Editions : Travelers and curious
Color and black and white photographs by Hughes Dubois
Condition : NEW
Language : French
Number of pages: 143
Dimensions: 285 x 200 mm
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This book presents Polynesian jewelry from New Zealand, the Marquesas Islands, Hawaii and Fiji - an archipelago at the geocultural intersection of Polysenia and Melanesia. Often worn to underline an individual's belonging to a given social group, these ornaments were also highly prized for their beauty. Indeed, their refined style, their precious materials such as jade, sperm whale ivory or human bones, as well as the extraordinary know-how of their manufacture still contribute to their great aesthetic value today.

Author : Denise Wanger & Charles-Edouard Duflon : D - Frédéric Dawance - Limited to 450 numbered copies
Condition : NEW
Language : French
Number of pages : 64
Dimensions : 300 x 215 mm
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ISBN : 978-3952256763

Several years of research were necessary to identify 171 different styles of neck supports in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti). This unpublished classification is commented and illustrated by more than 200 photos of objects from renowned private collections. This book is the first one exclusively dedicated to neck supports from this region...

Author: Odilon Audouin
Editions: Toguna
Color and black & white photographs
Condition: NEW
Languages: French & English
Number of pages: 250
Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm
Bound
ISBN : 978-2913243316

Among the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria, the rate of twin births is more than four times the world average. This fact, together with the high infant mortality rate, led to the creation of a unique twin cult. For each deceased twin, a small wooden figure, or ere ibeji, was carved in which the spirit of the twin could live. This statue was lovingly cared for and in return brought health and prosperity to the family. Through the lens of Jean-Pierre Depienne and the pen of Bruno Claessens, the 32 ere ibeji from the private collection of Dos and Bertie Winkel are presented for the first time in this book in English. After an introductory text on the subject, the great variety of styles of this very particular type of African art is described in depth.
Author: Bruno Claessens