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Arts & Cultures 2007 – #8

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SKU: 978-2-7572-0070-4 Category: Tag:

Description

Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, the Americas

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

360 pages, 256 colour and B/W illustration, 15 maps.

Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller and Somogy Editions d’art.

Contents

Laurence Mattet  Editorial

Laurence Mattet       Interview of Jacques Hainard and Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller

Pauline et Philippe de Flers & Jean-Loïc Le Quellec    Prehistoric Swimmers in the Sahara

Michel Carrier      Inuit Mummies of Greenland

Anne Joëlle Nardin          A Rein Ring Reflects Sumerian Creativity

Nicolas Ducimetière             The Purple and the Gold – Sovereigns and Coinage of the Roman and Byzantine Empires

Nigel Barley                          Gap Year

David Joralemon                  Jaguars, Shamans and Rulers in Olmec Art

Roberto López Bravo          Palenque, City of the Great Waters

Margaret A. Stott                 The Tlingit Dance Headdress – Expression of Power and Prestige

Pierre Daix                            Notes on the Importance of the Hand for Our Knowledge of Sapiens sapiens

Daniela Bognolo                   Once Upon a Time, Among the Gan of Burkina Faso – Field Notes on the Origins of their Royal Symbols

David Berliner                      Caryatid Drums of Baga Women

Roger Boulay                        Dreams of Oceania – The Voyage of Count Festetics de Tolna in the Southern Seas (1893-1900)

Petty Benitez-Johannot        Weavers of Dreams – The T’boli from Southeastern Mindanao, Philippines

Ludovic Coupaye                 Some Abelam Portraits

Jean Mohr                             Portefolio: The Quai Branly Museum

Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller  Confidentially Yours

Additional information

Weight 2.1 kg
Edition

English, French