ART AFRICAIN

Description

The 350 pieces in this book come from Picardy collections. They reveal the diversity of this heritage preserved by individuals who, for the first time, agreed to their door ajar to allow us to make a trip to almost complete in the art of Africa. Acquired over the past fifteen years, mostly in remittances from African merchants chips or in the northern auction houses in France, they reflect a passionate sensibility and genuine freedom of choice, clean under collectors. In the case of African objects, the encounter is even stronger than it is often accompanied by a fascination with the exotic of these other forms of representation or for ritual character, as saying preface by Brigitte magic … derlon and Monique Jeudy-Ballini, two anthropologists College de France who have studied this year the tribe of primitive art collectors, the book closes with “Five morning under the trees,” five palaver composed for the occasion by Jean Louis Rambour.