Paris Primitive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paris Primitive write by Sally Price. This book was released on 2007-10-15. Paris Primitive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1990 Jacques Chirac, the future president of France and a passionate fan of non-European art, met Jacques Kerchache, a maverick art collector with the lifelong ambition of displaying African sculpture in the holy temple of French culture, the Louvre. Together they began laying plans, and ten years later African fetishes were on view under the same roof as the Mona Lisa. Then, in 2006, amidst a maelstrom of controversy and hype, Chirac presided over the opening of a new museum dedicated to primitive art in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower: the Musée du Quai Branly. Paris Primitive recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris’s museum world that resulted from Chirac’s dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of culture in French society. Along with exposing the machinations that led to the MQB’s creation, Sally Price addresses the thorny questions it raises about the legacy of colonialism, the balance between aesthetic judgments and ethnographic context, and the role of institutions of art and culture in an increasingly diverse France. Anyone with a stake in the myriad political, cultural, and anthropological issues raised by the MQB will find Price’s account fascinating.
A History of Modern France
A History of Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Modern France write by Jeremy D. Popkin. This book was released on 2016-05-23. A History of Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Organized chronologically, A History of Modern France presents a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated French history, including the French Revolution, the upheavals of the 19th century, the world wars of the 20th century, and France's current role in the European Union. Written for today's undergraduate students, the text presents scholarly controversies in an unbiased manner and reflects the best of contemporary scholarship in French history.
Primitive Art in Civilized Places
Primitive Art in Civilized Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Primitive Art in Civilized Places write by Sally Price. This book was released on 2001. Primitive Art in Civilized Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Mystique of Connoisseurship2. The Universality Principle3. The Night Side of Man4. Anonymity and Timelessness5. Power Plays6. Objets d'Art and Ethnographic Artifacts7. From Signature to Pedigree8. A Case in PointAfterwordNotesReferences CitedIllustration Credits Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Metropolitan Fetish
Metropolitan Fetish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metropolitan Fetish write by John Warne Monroe. This book was released on 2019-09-15. Metropolitan Fetish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines, through the doors of the Louvre, to world fairs and international auction rooms; into the apartments of avant-garde critics and poets; to the streets of Harlem, and then full-circle back to colonial museums and schools in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan. John Warne Monroe guides us on this journey, one that goes far beyond the world of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, to show how the Modernist avant-garde and the European colonial project influenced each other in profound and unexpected ways. Metropolitan Fetish reveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of cultural and imperial power. A broad and far-reaching history of the French reception of African art, it brings to life an era in which the aesthetic category of "primitive art" was invented.
The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought
The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought write by Lawrence D. Kritzman. This book was released on 2006. The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unrivaled in its scope and depth, "The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought" assesses the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics. More than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals discuss developments in French thought on such subjects as pacifism, fashion, gastronomy, technology, and urbanism. Contributors include prominent French thinkers, many of whom have played an integral role in the development of French thought, and American, British, and Canadian scholars who have been vital in the dissemination of French ideas.
