Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, Americas

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

Published by the Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Contents

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Emmanuel Grandjean: Cosmos: Interview with Didier Queloz

Nigel Barley: Aliens Prefer Blondes

Pascal Dibie: Under the Moon’s Watch

Jacques Chamay: The Cosmos as the Ancient Greeks Understood it

Jean-Marie Hosatte: The Great Decentring

Marie Mauzé: The Power of Stars in Native North American Societies

Suzanne Preston Blier: Cosmos as Labyrinth in African Art

Michèle Cros: Toulou and the Chameleons. Lobi Cosmic Echoes

Denis Ramseyer: Animism and Christianity. Cosmogony in the Forest Areas of Côte d’Ivoire

Hermione Waterfield: Trying to Make the Intangible Tangible, or Observations on the Cosmology of the Yoruba of Nigeria

Philippe Veuve: Sacred Deer of Japan: From Cosmogony to the Bushido

Ludovic Coupaye: Distributed Cosmology: Figures, Houses, Mounds and Gardens among the “Abelam”

Christian Coiffier: Creation Stories among the Iatmul of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

Guigone Camus: The Kiribati Islands: A Chain of Myths

Kim Akermann: Making Rain when the Sun Shines

Maia Nuku: Weaving the Cosmos Together

Bérénice Geoffroy Schneiter: Cosmos-Cosmetics: Dancing Brushes

Gisèle Gueller: Fear of Disaster among the Stars

Laurence Mattet:  Dealers’ Memories: Interviews with:

• Alain de Monbrison
• Thomas Murray

Anne-Joëlle Nardin : Activities of the Museum and the Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller

List of Members

List of Advertisers

L’article Arts & Cultures 2022 – #23 est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, Americas

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

Published by the Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Contents

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Emmanuel Grandjean: Cosmos: Interview with Didier Queloz

Nigel Barley: Aliens Prefer Blondes

Pascal Dibie: Under the Moon’s Watch

Jacques Chamay: The Cosmos as the Ancient Greeks Understood it

Jean-Marie Hosatte: The Great Decentring

Marie Mauzé: The Power of Stars in Native North American Societies

Suzanne Preston Blier: Cosmos as Labyrinth in African Art

Michèle Cros: Toulou and the Chameleons. Lobi Cosmic Echoes

Denis Ramseyer: Animism and Christianity. Cosmogony in the Forest Areas of Côte d’Ivoire

Hermione Waterfield: Trying to Make the Intangible Tangible, or Observations on the Cosmology of the Yoruba of Nigeria

Philippe Veuve: Sacred Deer of Japan: From Cosmogony to the Bushido

Ludovic Coupaye: Distributed Cosmology: Figures, Houses, Mounds and Gardens among the “Abelam”

Christian Coiffier: Creation Stories among the Iatmul of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

Guigone Camus: The Kiribati Islands: A Chain of Myths

Kim Akermann: Making Rain when the Sun Shines

Maia Nuku: Weaving the Cosmos Together

Bérénice Geoffroy Schneiter: Cosmos-Cosmetics: Dancing Brushes

Gisèle Gueller: Fear of Disaster among the Stars

Laurence Mattet:  Dealers’ Memories: Interviews with:

• Alain de Monbrison
• Thomas Murray

Anne-Joëlle Nardin : Activities of the Museum and the Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller

List of Members

List of Advertisers

L’article Arts & Cultures 2022 – #23 – Digital Download est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, Americas

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Contents

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Anne Vanderstraete: The Musée Barbier-Mueller: A Temple of Cultural Transmission

Marylène Patou-Mathis: Knowledge and Know-How and Their Transmission in Prehistoric Times

Michel Valloggia: The Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient Egypt

Jacques Chamay: From Greece to Magna Graecia: Transmission and Adaptation of Attic Pottery

Gustaaf Verswijver: Making “Beautiful” Kayapo Feather Ornaments

Alain-Michel Boyer: Transmission, Tradition and Authenticity in African Arts

Constantin Petridis: Beyond Kifwebe: Masks Attributed to the Songye-Tempa and Tetela-Sungu

Estelle Niklès van Osselt and Marie Orsi: A Horse for Travelling between Heaven and Earth: Study of a Tang Dynasty Artefact

Usha R. Balakrishnan: Encounters, Influences and Interpretations: Jewellery as Instruments of Transmission

Arlette Ziegler and Alain Viaro: Ancestor Images and Healing Figurines: Wood Sculptures from Nias, Indonesia

Michael Gunn: The Transmission of Art Traditions in New Ireland

Yann Borjon-Privé: Conservation, Transformation and Transmission of Ivory among the Dolgan (Asian Arctic)

Nigel Barley: Wilde Goose Chase

Anne Pastor: Native Women Voices: A Laboratory of Ideas

Jean-Marie Hosatte: Notre-Dame de Paris: A Manufactured Middle Ages

Emmanuel Pierrat:  “I Was Brought up by a Library”

Laurence Mattet : – Dealers’ Memories: Lance Entwistle Interviewed by Laurence Mattet
– Art as Legacy: Reminiscences of the Barbier-Mueller Grandchildren
– Activities of the Musée and the Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller

L’article Arts & Cultures 2021 – #22 – Digital download est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, Americas

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Contents

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Anne Vanderstraete: The Musée Barbier-Mueller: A Temple of Cultural Transmission

Marylène Patou-Mathis: Knowledge and Know-How and Their Transmission in Prehistoric Times

Michel Valloggia: The Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient Egypt

Jacques Chamay: From Greece to Magna Graecia: Transmission and Adaptation of Attic Pottery

Gustaaf Verswijver: Making “Beautiful” Kayapo Feather Ornaments

Alain-Michel Boyer: Transmission, Tradition and Authenticity in African Arts

Constantin Petridis: Beyond Kifwebe: Masks Attributed to the Songye-Tempa and Tetela-Sungu

Estelle Niklès van Osselt and Marie Orsi: A Horse for Travelling between Heaven and Earth: Study of a Tang Dynasty Artefact

Usha R. Balakrishnan: Encounters, Influences and Interpretations: Jewellery as Instruments of Transmission

Arlette Ziegler and Alain Viaro: Ancestor Images and Healing Figurines: Wood Sculptures from Nias, Indonesia

Michael Gunn: The Transmission of Art Traditions in New Ireland

Yann Borjon-Privé: Conservation, Transformation and Transmission of Ivory among the Dolgan (Asian Arctic)

Nigel Barley: Wilde Goose Chase

Anne Pastor: Native Women Voices: A Laboratory of Ideas

Jean-Marie Hosatte: Notre-Dame de Paris: A Manufactured Middle Ages

Emmanuel Pierrat:  “I Was Brought up by a Library”

Laurence Mattet : – Dealers’ Memories: Lance Entwistle Interviewed by Laurence Mattet
– Art as Legacy: Reminiscences of the Barbier-Mueller Grandchildren
– Activities of the Musée and the Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller

L’article Arts & Cultures 2021 – #22 est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

296 pages, 299 colour and 66 B/W illustrations, 9 maps.

Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Contents

Laurence Mattet:  Editorial

Laurence Mattet:  Interviews with Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, Stéphane Barbier-Mueller and Thierry Barbier-Mueller

Nigel Barley:  Coming to Terms with the Ancestors

Manthia Diawara & Terri Geis:  The New Sacred Since André Breton and Edouard Glissant

Jean-Loïc Le Quellec:  Shamanism and Rock Art

Matteo Campagnolo:  The Portrait of the Sovereign on Currency, Its Origin and Development during the Reformation in France

Stéphen Rostain:  The Shaman Was a Woman

Nimrod Bena:  The Utensil Possesses Me

Alain-Michel Boyer:  “A God Dances within Me”.The Spirituality of the Yaure

Louis Perrois:  Ancestors and Spirits in the Traditions of Gabon

Jan Elsen:  Bird’s-head Axes, the Secret Society, and Initiation Rites

Bertrand Goy:  In Southern Madagascar, Fesira, an Antanosy Sculptor

Régis Gayraud:  Rediscovering Charles Vignier

Estelle Niklès van Osselt & Marie Orsi:  An Ode to the Ancestors.Two Chu Culture Artefacts

Timour Claquin Chambugong:  Sociocultural Conceptions, Representations and Practices among the Garo

François Pannier:  Buddhist Rituals and Persian Influences on Display in Two Masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection

Ok-Kyung Pak:  Shamans and Divers Turn Despair into Hope, and Distress into Abundance on the Island of Jeju, Korea

Adrien Viel:  Preliminary Note on the Chepang of Nepal and Their Territory

Antonio Guerreiro:  A Tale of ‘Two Doors’ from the Indonesian Archipelago: Bahau Saa’ and Toraja Sa’dan.

Jean-Marie Hosatte: Corine Sombrun. The Trance and Science

Laurence Mattet: Activities of the Museum and the Cultural Foundation

Gisèle Gueller:  The Watcher on the Bench

Tributes to Monique Barbier-Mueller:  Silvia Bächli, Gilles Barbier, Miquel Barceló, Alain-Michel Boyer, Farideh Cadot, Paolo Colombo, Max Engammare, Adelina von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, Patricia Myriam Isimat-Mirin, Emilia & Ilya Kabakov, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Stéphane Martin, Joachim Pissaro, Markus Raetz, Jacques Toubon, Fabienne Verdier, Bob Wilson.

L’article Arts & Cultures 2020 – #21 – Digital download est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

296 pages, 299 colour and 66 B/W illustrations, 9 maps.

Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Contents

Laurence Mattet:  Editorial

Laurence Mattet: Interviews with Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, Stéphane Barbier-Mueller and Thierry Barbier-Mueller

Nigel Barley:  Coming to Terms with the Ancestors

Manthia Diawara & Terri Geis:  The New Sacred Since André Breton and Edouard Glissant

Jean-Loïc Le Quellec:  Shamanism and Rock Art

Matteo Campagnolo:  The Portrait of the Sovereign on Currency, Its Origin and Development during the Reformation in France

Stéphen Rostain:  The Shaman Was a Woman

Nimrod Bena:  The Utensil Possesses Me

Alain-Michel Boyer:  “A God Dances within Me”.The Spirituality of the Yaure

Louis Perrois:  Ancestors and Spirits in the Traditions of Gabon

Jan Elsen:  Bird’s-head Axes, the Secret Society, and Initiation Rites

Bertrand Goy:  In Southern Madagascar, Fesira, an Antanosy Sculptor

Régis Gayraud:  Rediscovering Charles Vignier

Estelle Niklès van Osselt & Marie Orsi:  An Ode to the Ancestors.Two Chu Culture Artefacts

Timour Claquin Chambugong:  Sociocultural Conceptions, Representations and Practices among the Garo

François Pannier:  Buddhist Rituals and Persian Influences on Display in Two Masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection

Ok-Kyung Pak:  Shamans and Divers Turn Despair into Hope, and Distress into Abundance on the Island of Jeju, Korea

Adrien Viel:  Preliminary Note on the Chepang of Nepal and Their Territory

Antonio Guerreiro:  A Tale of ‘Two Doors’ from the Indonesian Archipelago: Bahau Saa’ and Toraja Sa’dan.

Jean-Marie Hosatte: Corine Sombrun. The Trance and Science

Laurence Mattet: Activities of the Museum and the Cultural Foundation

Gisèle Gueller:  The Watcher on the Bench

Tributes to Monique Barbier-Mueller:  Silvia Bächli, Gilles Barbier, Miquel Barceló, Alain-Michel Boyer, Farideh Cadot, Paolo Colombo, Max Engammare, Adelina von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, Patricia Myriam Isimat-Mirin, Emilia & Ilya Kabakov, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Stéphane Martin, Joachim Pissaro, Markus Raetz, Jacques Toubon, Fabienne Verdier, Bob Wilson.

L’article Arts & Cultures 2020 – #21 est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

304 pages, 268 colour illustrations and 50 black and white illustrations.

Published by the Musée Barbier-Mueller.

CONTENTS

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Christian Grappe: The Place and Role of Sacrifices and Offerings in the Bible, and the Relative Importance It Grants to the Shedding of Blood

Dominique Jaillard: Greece, a Sacrificial Culture

Floriane Morin: In the Footsteps of Clément-Marie Biazin (1924–1981): Words and Colours of a Painter-Philosopher from the Central African Republic

Michelle Cros: From One Toulou, the Other: The Sacrificial Journey of a Lobi Fetish

Sandro Capo Chichi: Seats, Blood Sacrifices and Skulls among the Akan, Ewe and Fon of West Africa

Estelle Niklès van Osselt and Marie Orsi: The Story of an Eared Bowl

Clément Jacquemoud: The Return of the “Ice Maiden”: A Mummy Sows Unrest in the Altai Republic (Southern Siberia, Russian Federation)

Georges Breguet: Sumba: Rites, Offerings and Sacrifices

Petty Benitez Johannot: Site of Commerce and Authenticity:A Kalasag Shield from the Kalinga of Northern Luzon

Christian Coiffier: Human Dwellings, Spirit Dwellings: Sepik River Valley (Papua New Guinea)

Sylvie Peperstraete: Chalchiuhtlicue, or “Jade Skirt”: The Aztec Goddess of Water and Fertility Rites

Stéphen Rostain: The Amazonian Past, Having Been Sacrificed on the Altar of Forgetfulness, Is Finally Honoured

Michael Gunn: The Hole in the Middle: Did Malagan Evolve from Lapita?

Kirk Huffman: “Blad i mas ron”: “Blood must flow”, Pigs, Souls, Sacrifice, Status and Eternity in Northern Vanuatu, South-West Pacific

Nigel Barley: Notes and Queries

Lionel Obadia: “Love Locks”: New Urban Aesthetic or Magical Practice?

L’article Arts & Cultures 2019– #20 – Digital download est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

304 pages, 268 colour illustrations and 50 black and white illustrations.

Published by the Musée Barbier-Mueller.

CONTENTS

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Christian Grappe: The Place and Role of Sacrifices and Offerings in the Bible, and the Relative Importance It Grants to the Shedding of Blood

Dominique Jaillard: Greece, a Sacrificial Culture

Floriane Morin: In the Footsteps of Clément-Marie Biazin (1924–1981): Words and Colours of a Painter-Philosopher from the Central African Republic

Michelle Cros: From One Toulou, the Other: The Sacrificial Journey of a Lobi Fetish

Sandro Capo Chichi: Seats, Blood Sacrifices and Skulls among the Akan, Ewe and Fon of West Africa

Estelle Niklès van Osselt and Marie Orsi: The Story of an Eared Bowl

Clément Jacquemoud: The Return of the “Ice Maiden”: A Mummy Sows Unrest in the Altai Republic (Southern Siberia, Russian Federation)

Georges Breguet: Sumba: Rites, Offerings and Sacrifices

Petty Benitez Johannot: Site of Commerce and Authenticity:A Kalasag Shield from the Kalinga of Northern Luzon

Christian Coiffier: Human Dwellings, Spirit Dwellings: Sepik River Valley (Papua New Guinea)

Sylvie Peperstraete: Chalchiuhtlicue, or “Jade Skirt”: The Aztec Goddess of Water and Fertility Rites

Stéphen Rostain: The Amazonian Past, Having Been Sacrificed on the Altar of Forgetfulness, Is Finally Honoured

Michael Gunn: The Hole in the Middle: Did Malagan Evolve from Lapita?

Kirk Huffman: “Blad i mas ron”: “Blood must flow”, Pigs, Souls, Sacrifice, Status and Eternity in Northern Vanuatu, South-West Pacific

Nigel Barley: Notes and Queries

Lionel Obadia: “Love Locks”: New Urban Aesthetic or Magical Practice?

L’article Arts & Cultures 2019 – #20 est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Annual magazine.

Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

271 pages, 262 colour and B/W illustrations, 9 maps.

Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Contents

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Caroline Kaspar-Nebel: Recognition for the Art of the Cyclades in Europe

Anne-Claire Schumacher: An Encounter between the Musée Barbier-Mueller and the Musée Ariana Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass

Denis Ramseyer:  Archives of the Sands, from Palmyra to Carthage. Photos by Father Antoine Poidebard

Monique Crick: The Receptacles of the Vietnamese Bronze Age from the Dong Son Culture to the Giao Chi Era

Jacques Chamay:  The Infant Heracles

Nicolas Ducimetière: Two Statues Along the Route of the Great Explorers: James Cook and Henry Morton Stanley

Marie-Paule Vial:  André Derain: The Avant-Garde of Primitivism?

Nigel Barley:  On Collecting Your Thoughts

Samantha Reichenbach: The Musée Barbier-Mueller and the International Museum of the Reformation: Very Strong Bonds

Philippe Veuve:   The Numismatic Cabinet of Stéphane Barbier-Mueller

Flavio Borda d’Água: Voltaire and Balthazar: A Missed Opportunity

Nala Aloudat and Hanna Boghanim: The Islamic Treasures of Africa, from Timbuktu to Zanzibar

Denis Ramseyer: The Kuya of Côte d’Ivoire

Daria Cevoli: Art of Nagaland: The Force of Matter

Anne Vanderstraete: Currencies and Items of Exchange: Africa, Asia, Oceania

Sara Petrella and Aldo Trucchio: “To the Far Reaches of Barbary …” Report on a Research Trip to Quebec and Ontario, Regarding European Illustrations and Indigenous Artefacts

Roberta Colombo Dougoud and Floriane Morin: A Musée Barbier-Mueller Display Case at the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva (MEG), 2017

Paul Michael Taylor: Ancestral Plaited Mats from Madagascar

Olivier Delhoume: Travels with Michel Butor

Claude Grin: Metamorphoses of the Kanak Roof Finial

André Delpuech, Christine Laurière and Carine Peltier: Ethnography’s Boom Years: The Trocadéro, 1928–1937

Monique Barbier-Mueller: To My Father. The Inveterate Sporting Spirit.

L’article Arts & Cultures 2018 – #19 – Digital download est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Annual magazine.

Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

271 pages, 262 colour and B/W illustrations, 9 maps.

Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller. 

Contents

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Caroline Kaspar-Nebel: Recognition for the Art of the Cyclades in Europe

Anne-Claire Schumacher: An Encounter between the Musée Barbier-Mueller and the Musée Ariana Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass

Denis Ramseyer:  Archives of the Sands, from Palmyra to Carthage. Photos by Father Antoine Poidebard

Monique Crick: The Receptacles of the Vietnamese Bronze Age from the Dong Son Culture to the Giao Chi Era

Jacques Chamay:  The Infant Heracles

Nicolas Ducimetière: Two Statues Along the Route of the Great Explorers: James Cook and Henry Morton Stanley

Marie-Paule Vial:  André Derain: The Avant-Garde of Primitivism?

Nigel Barley:  On Collecting Your Thoughts

Samantha Reichenbach: The Musée Barbier-Mueller and the International Museum of the Reformation: Very Strong Bonds

Philippe Veuve:   The Numismatic Cabinet of Stéphane Barbier-Mueller

Flavio Borda d’Água: Voltaire and Balthazar: A Missed Opportunity

Nala Aloudat and Hanna Boghanim: The Islamic Treasures of Africa, from Timbuktu to Zanzibar

Denis Ramseyer: The Kuya of Côte d’Ivoire

Daria Cevoli: Art of Nagaland: The Force of Matter

Anne Vanderstraete: Currencies and Items of Exchange: Africa, Asia, Oceania

Sara Petrella and Aldo Trucchio: “To the Far Reaches of Barbary …” Report on a Research Trip to Quebec and Ontario, Regarding European Illustrations and Indigenous Artefacts

Roberta Colombo Dougoud and Floriane Morin: A Musée Barbier-Mueller Display Case at the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva (MEG), 2017

Paul Michael Taylor: Ancestral Plaited Mats from Madagascar

Olivier Delhoume: Travels with Michel Butor

Claude Grin: Metamorphoses of the Kanak Roof Finial

André Delpuech, Christine Laurière and Carine Peltier: Ethnography’s Boom Years: The Trocadéro, 1928–1937

Monique Barbier-Mueller: To My Father. The Inveterate Sporting Spirit.

L’article Arts & Cultures 2018 – #19 est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.