Description
“The Collection” is a work of synthesis is based on the fund’s Quai Branly Museum to offer the casual reader as the connoisseur an exploration of the arts and cultures of the world. It is divided into six parts corresponding to the four continents that cover the museum’s collections – Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Americas – and photographic and historical collections. Each party presents each selection of forty works accompanied by instructions written by over 150 authors, internationally renowned specialists approaching the study of these pieces under the anglesconjugués of history, anthropology and aesthetics . This book, served by high quality reproductions, allows everyone to acquire the essential concepts to orient themselves in the museum’s collections and, beyond, to understand the principles of creation of other cultures.