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__In particular discovered into 74 with the exposure of J. Kerchache, Lobi, located at Burkina-Faso, have had for a few conquered years their place in the collections. Numbers of more or less serious works on their subjects since are appeared and if it were necessary to retain some of them, we would quote those of Mr. Père (“Lobi, tradition and change”, 1988), of Fiéloux, Lombard and Kambou-Shoeing (“Images of Africa and Social Sciences: The countries Lobi, Birifor and Dagara”, 1993), and naturally the impossible to circumvent catalogue of the only exposure which was devoted to them and which constitutes an essential reference still today, I want to speak about the “Kunst und Religion of Lobi” by Piet Meyer in 1981.
__Daniela Bognolo, who has the appearance of a reference on the matter, has just published a book on Lobi which she studies since the end of the Seventies. __Lobi, collection “Aimed of Africa” under the direction of Anne-Marie Bouttieux, 5 Continents Editions, is a study on the rigour of the large Lobi statues and their forms sometimes strange and mysterious which do not cease surprising us since their appearance on the market in the middle of the Seventies. According to D. Bognolo, this company, parmis most complex of the voltaic surface, developed an art whose sculptures evoke with the daily newspaper the images of the predecessors. The eternal presence of the spirit of the latter, recognized like appointed ancestors or only like unfinished ancestors, constitutes the stake which directs the manufacture of objects engaged in the management of the social and religious facts. A book which will be used as reference and of discussion thread to all those which is impassioned for this art. Lobi collection “ Visions d’Afrique ” sous la direction d’Anne-Marie Bouttieux 5 Continents Editions 29€

__The Museum of the Branly Quay opened its doors in June 2006.A this occasion, of the personalities of the whole world met to be devoted to a fundamental reflexion on the future of such an institution. __Who has the objects? Which is the place of the contemporary art in a museum primarily dedicated to traditional art? Is the museum a laic space or can it claim to be a crowned space? Which speech to hold on works? How to tackle the problem of the authenticity? How to emphasize the immaterial inheritances? To which public T one applies ?
__All its questions, of the artists, the conservatives, the philosophers or of the writers one tempted to bring some brief replies. In particular to read the debate on “how much manner an object can it be authentic? At the hour when many people raise questions about the authenticity of an object, where in events such as “Kaos” or “Bruneaf” on the true function of the committees of more or less impartial experts according to “appraised” people's, it is good to know that the authenticity of an object is not only related to a patina as on a date of “harvest”, that it perhaps authenticates if it is legitimate and false if it is not it, it can be it if it is in conformity with a style, with a well defined type and forgery if he does not correspond, or if it leaves the authorized guns. As it can become it if it changes a category to another. In that, the analyses of P. Descolla, Y. Fur or that of S. Houdart are authentically enthralling . Le dialogue des cultures Actes de rencontres inaugurales du Musée du Quai Branly Sous la direction de Bruno Latour Editions Babel 10.50€

__With the synopsis of this number of autumn, a file divided and complementary on Ubangi, another on the Art of court of Nigeria, then a small turn of with dimensions of the royal dresses of the Indians of America. The portrait of Enrico Donati, a portfolio on some kings d' Afrique, topicality of the museum, the sales and the publications. Of what to make you wait in his right measurement the next winter edition. Tribal Art N°17 20€

__Where let us be us viability of the Museums of ethnography in a culture in perpetual evolution? With which kind of culture the museums contribute when they expose the cultures of the world per hour of a universalization which would like to put these cultures on the same row ? __ __For which, in the final analysis, is used these museums? With the scientists? With the collectors? With a public more and more with the fact of the cultures of the other, with “revolution” Internet inter alia ? __And then that is what Culture today? How to integrate without disintegrating these cultures, knowing to make them benefit from more our civilization all while helping them to preserve theirs ? __To try to answer, or at least to open doors with this delicate problem, put forward with in particular the opening of the Branly Quay, several researchers, a director of museum and a merchant “of put Tribal Art” one their reflexions and their directions criticize in this small book. Small by the size but large by the matter, criticism and polemic since certain texts can go against some others, but with an avowable aim to make progress things.
__A collection salutary and essential to all those which is interested closely or by far in its own Culture and the Cultures of elsewhere. (already appeared: “Us Others” and “Migrant Musics) . Culture & Cultures Sous la direction de Réda Benkirane et Erica Deuber Ziagler Collection “ Tabou ” Ed : In Folio/ M.E.G 2007 12€

__The catalogue of the organized exposure of February 8 to March 31 to the gallery Liberal Bunting recalls the course of the merchant P. Robin with supported homage of B. Dulon. One does not learn large thing there on the Bozo people which one does not know already, but I believe that there is not the matter of this catalogue which makes us more feel the passion of a man and his attachment to tribal arts. Always remain objects of excellent invoice for the majority, very colourful which contrast violently of with what we have the practice to see elsewhere. Namely also that this puppet theatre could quite simply have disappeared if the government Malian had not been concerned with defend it since its accession with independence in 1960. Indeed, here are several tens of years that troops traverse the world under the aegis of international organizations, prevailing with a recognition of this art which without that, would have become completely obsolete in many villages. Bozo, masques et marionnettes du Mali. Collection Pierre Robin Laurent Boudier, Bernard Dulon et Pierre Robin sous la direction de Louis Deledicq Ed : Héritage Architectural 2007 30€

__It is in 1839 that officially photography thanks to discovered of Niépce nait and of Daguerre and its technical evolution will be quickly known out of the borders of industrial Europe, in particular in the Othoman empire. A few decades later, of the Europeans installed in principal the city of the Close East, will open studios and will form the first generations of local photographers. The Othoman court will not remain insensitive with the capacity of photography and will relatively early stick the services of these Armenian photographers. __The catalogue restores well this environment of end of century when the notable ones pose in hieratic and coordinated positions, similar to the photographs which one found by on our premises in this end 20th. This photographic creation constitutes a salutary testimony on a country which knew deep upheavals, it is the one completed time old witness which without these photographs, would perhaps never have arrived to us. L’Orient des photographes Arméniens Réalisé sous la direction de Philippe Monsel Ed : Institut du Monde Arabe / Cercle d’Art 2007

__For some time, the museums are questioned on the cultures of the others and their ways of apprehending them. The Museums of the Art schools of Rennes does not derogate from this question which it raises through this exposure of which there remains to us a beautiful catalogue. Goshawks of the cabinet of curiosities of Robien and the collections which trailed in the reserves of the Breton Museums, raises the question how to think the other according to its own culture? Can one still at the present time continue this monologue of deaf persons which made us a long time believe that we could approach the other with only our glance of Westerner ? __The exposure which finished on March 4, presented surroundings two hundred objects coming from Africa, of Oceania, of America and Asia from which some appear parmis oldest known like this Mochica idol of Peru or these statuettes erotic Chinese that one find in this catalogue. Collecteurs d’Ames, du cabinet de curiosité aux collections extra-européennes des Musées Bretons. Ed : Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes 28€ (frais d’envois inclus)

__It is in 1839 that officially photography thanks to discovered of Niépce nait and of Daguerre and its technical evolution will be quickly known out of the borders of industrial Europe, in particular in the Othoman empire. A few decades later, of the Europeans installed in principal the city of the Close East, will open studios and will form the first generations of local photographers. The Othoman court will not remain insensitive with the capacity of photography and will relatively early stick the services of these Armenian photographers. __The catalogue restores well this environment of end of century when the notable ones pose in hieratic and coordinated positions, similar to the photographs which one found by on our premises in this end 19th. This photographic creation constitutes a salutary testimony on a country which knew deep upheavals, it is the one completed time old witness which without these photographs, would perhaps never have arrived to us. L’Orient des photographes Arméniens Réalisé sous la direction de Philippe Monsel Ed : Institut du Monde Arabe / Cercle d’Art 2007

__Currently, the museums raise the question of the glance that one to carry little to the objects piled up in the reserves and consequently of the cultures which have them create vis-a-vis new political data, economic and cultural. In a moving world, can one still put the questions which were on the agenda it there about fifty years? Obviously not, times change and failing to have a critical glance on the past for not fallen down in the same errors, appropriation of the goods and denies cultures, the future museum of the Junctions poses a glance on fundamental and obsessional sets of themes (to take again the term of Mr. Côté) like the origins, the existence, our report/ratio with the environment, of our actions and the desire of communication. With this intention, the exposure to joined together a selection of old and contemporary objects come from the four corners of the world. To put in parallel a mask of Tapirapé of Brazil with a contemporary work of a Inuit artist or this very beautiful Senufo statue with an Australian post totemic to create by John Wilson in 2000, was not a mean challenge. Successful bet if one believes of it the multitude of the public which will be able to benefit from it a little more since the exposure is prolonged until July 9. The objects presented were seldom seen and the seldom heard matter and it is there that all the interest of this book resides. Cultures du monde, chefs-d’œuvre du musée des Confluences. Ed : Mairie de Toulouse, Glenat, Aedelsa éditions 2006 39€

	__Jacques Chirac meets in 1992, in Mauritius, the merchant and “expert in primitive arts” Jacques kerchache. The destiny of several large national museums was going to be upset of it. Following the great work launched by François Mitterrand, J. Chirac, once elected president of the Republic in 1995, wishes to leave him also its mark in Paris muséal of the new millenium: it decides to create a museum which will be devoted to these arts known as” first”, with these masterpieces of humanity which had not been entitled to a presentation in large Louvre. __Eleven years later, here that draws up itself at the edge of the Seine, in easily flooded zone, a palate drawn by Jean Nouvel. In a vice of luxury, surrounded by interactive images and “devices”, 4000 objects are exposed to the admiration and the “aesthetic pleasure” of the futures and many visitors. Unquestionably, they are emphasized: for each part presented, 100.000€ will have been spent, for which it is advisable to add 12.500€ annual operation.
__The new museum is superb. But was it necessary to spend as much of money, and especially will hold-T' it its promises ? __Who will recall in which circumstances it was thought and built? That, stripped of any scientific team, it is before a whole publicly-owned establishment “related to administration”. That it was built on the inheritances of two museums put at death, the national museum of African Arts and océaniens and the museum of the Man, that their fabulous collections (more than 300.000 objects), which constitutes a side of the history of the ethnology and anthropology Frenchwomen, were put in case and are accessible any more neither to the researchers nor with the public. __With the pretext of finish some with one supposed “mistook other civilizations” which would have expressed the national museums since decades, it is the knowledge of African arts and civilizations and océaniens - mainly which was sacrificed. It could be that certain post-colonial and political considerations, that fights of being able and influence between administrations led to the realization of large and expensive aberration. Le scandale des arts premiers. La véritable histoire du musée du quai Branly. Bernard Dupaigne Editions Mille et une Nuits 16 €

	__Dice 1917 in Zurich, at the time of the Cabaret Voltaire and a year before the publication of the famous Proclamation Hobby-horse, Tristan Tzara was impassioned for African Arts and Océaniens, publishing in the review “Hobby-horse” a “song of Cacadou” of the Aranda tribe and a series of “negro poems”, fruits of serious research. It was recognized later on like one of the rare experts of Arts known as Primitifs, constituting an invaluable collection while giving sporadically briefs tests on the subject. The whole as of the these interventions is joined together in this book with the negro poems which it had collected and adapted for the French reader. Découverte des Arts dits Primitifs. Suivi de Poèmes Nègres Tristan Tzara Editions Hazan 16 €

__A curiosity in this re-entry that this book written in 1910 and published in 1919, is five years after the death of its author. As well as Negerplastik de Carl Einstein or of Orbis Pictus d' Ernst Wasmuth, V. Markov was one of the whole first theorists European of African Art. Much less known than its contemporaries and due, his book was never translated into French, Markov devoted the major part of its life in research on the esthetics of Arts, painter himself, it will study the period of the rebirth and the primitive last, the popular art of Sweden which will prove to be for him the true source of the plastic beauty, opening new creative prospects to him. Its many voyages will lead it in several museums of Oslo, of Sweden, of Paris or of London and will quite naturally lead it to write some books whose Art of the Easter Island and Art of septentrional Asia remain to be discovered. To the reading of delivers itself, discovered by Dieudonné Gnammankou (specialist in the relations old between Russia and Africa) and translated by Nathalie Midsummer's Day Lecompte, one includes/understands better why Arts of Africa revolutionized the Visual arts of this beginning of century, their thus allowing “to leave the dead end in which Europe was”. L’Art Nègre Vladimir Markov Editions Monde Global 29.90€

__Rare are the exposures devoted to the masks and the statuary of Nepal, and perhaps rarer are people who considered their ways of life, their cultures, their religions. One can thus only greet the initiative of R. Vanuxem, to have to organize in his gallery an exposure on this topic and to have to publish this catalogue in which, thanks to the photographs of Hugues Dubois, the objects take all their dimensions. The text of Small Marc (A Masks Discovered. Glances on the Primitive art of the Himalayas, Stock/Aldines, 1995), accompanied by photographs of ground of J.P. Girolami are a simple introduction of these still ignored civilizations and a rather salutary study of style of this statuary which, I hope for it, will find his place parmis the great achievements of the people known as “primitive”. La Statuaire Archaïque de l’Ouest du Népal Galerie Renaud Vanuxem Catalogue d’exposition

__It is true that an exposure on Arts of Cameroun takes with against foot the superabundant offer of more delicate objects, having for a long time to tame the Western glance. Anonymities, like the majority of African works, the sculptors worked for a precise ethnic group, in a sociocultural context which will determine their forms. It is it why of a kind of repetition which little to appear with the first glance and which, while insisting a little more, grows blurred. The exposure was organized in three parts firstly following two distinct areas, Douala and the frontier zones (Keaka, Fang, Douala…), kingdoms of Grassland (Bamenda, Bamoun and Bamiléké), to finish on the beaded objects. The catalogue follows the same principle and allows us to often apprehend an Art in margin of the exposures. The photographs of H. Dubois highlight plastic qualities of the sculptures presented and the texts of B. Von Lintig (author of several works on Arts of Africa) enable us to locate each objects in its context. It is a successful catalogue. Cameroun Galerie B. Dulon Catalogue d’exposition (textes Bettina Von Lintig – Photos Hugues Dubois)

	__How to make the turn (as far as possible) of the culture of a group and its arts without falling into the already known as hundred times nor in the pointed scientific research which passes very close to sometimes the borders of the incomprehensible one? While asking specialists in the groups studied to make the synthesis of work realized hitherto, by decorating them of photographs of objects recognized by all as being true witnesses of an often disappeared history. The challenge was not obvious but in front of this series of small books, one can say that it is successful. After having located Chokwe in time and space, the various chapters treat figurines used in the ritual of the divination, of the statuary related to the worships of Hamba possession, of the old traditional statuary, the masks associated with the chefferies and the initiatory rites, as with the seats of which symbolism and the function are revealing religion and hierarchical structure of the chefferies, or of the famous effigies of Chibinda Ilunga, the civilizing hero of the myths of origin. The whole is accompanied by about fifteen photographs of ground resulting from the files from the Royal Museum from Africa Centrale in Tervuren.
Chokwe Boris Wastiau 5 Continents Editions Visions d’Afrique vol I 24,50 €

	__In this book, S. Price, historian of art and professor D `anthropology at the University of William & Mary (Virginia), flat put the statute that revêt art known as “primitive” at the eyes of the majority of public “enlightened” of Western Europe and the United States. __Its masterly study, introduced by an important foreword of Maurice godelier, is based on a carried out survey auprés of conservatives of the large museums of private collectors and ethnologist. It takes into account work of criticisms of art like W. Rubin, K. Clark, H. Kamer where still R. Huyghe. __S. Price looks further into the debate on the concept ethnographic object of art-object by clarifying the multiple mechanisms - strategies of acquisitions to the modéles of interpretation which made it possible to set up the dehumanization of the Primitive art and its creators.
__The moment when the Museum of the Branly quay opens its doors in Paris, the reading (republication of 1989 translated first once in French in 1995), the reading of this text is forced to include/understand the current stakes and the glances carried on these arts known as “primitive”. Arts primitifs ; regards civilisés Sally Price Editions de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts 18 €

	__With the last two centuries turning, the meeting of negro art with awaked European art at one time when he died of a slow amnesia; but its entry with the museum also lit the war between esthetics and anthropology. The vehemence and the recurrence of such a discord required initially a criticism and the statement of rigorous criteria making it possible to locate us in a new landscape. __But the taste of simplest and most antiquated, the tough excavation to the material and maternal heart of the things which characterize” Arts what is called First”, continue to work the Contemporary art, at the point to constitute, perhaps, more insistent than the others, a sign of times. __The African continent still remained for much “a large hole on the chart of the world” (Sartre) is however the native place of humanity; but it is only in works to which it gave birth that the power of its genius appears. In them shelter the secrecy of the black identity and for a share that of the Occident.
It is with a genealogy of this passion of the origin that this text is initially devoted. La passion de l’origine François warin Editions Ellipses 14,50 €

	__Even feeling that for the first volume of this series devoted to Chokwe. One could ask nobody other but L. Perrois to cover a subject which he knows particularly well since he devoted to it most of his research, as of his life of the remainder. After having located Fang in equatorial Africa of formerly and the first contacts with the white at the XIX century, the author brings us in their everyday lifes and traditional, within the company, of the family, the systems of values and their rules of life, with dimensions their beliefs and their myths before leaning on, strictly speaking, the sculptural Art of Fangs, the various styles which composes it and the various supports on which it is carried out. Fang Louis Perrois 5 Continents Editions Visions d’Afrique vol II 24,50 €

	__Published at the time of one of the inaugural exposures of the museum of the Branly quay, this abundantly illustrated catalogue recalls the broad outline of the history of these famous masks, since their condition of being composite, of dream, being studied stylistic which it is possible to make some. Agent of about fifty cimiers reproduce in this catalogue, the museum thus reveals the richness of a collection taken for the majority in the reserves of the museum of the Man. It will be considered it regrettable that no mention of membership appear in the annotations, showing us as well as the recognition does not form part of the ethics of this new museum which in the same way denies the considerable work undertaken by a great quantity of researchers lasting of many decades. Ciwara, chimères africaines 5 Continents Editions/Musée du quai Branly 25 €

__With the image of the company in which we live, the musics of the world meet, intersect, were métissent… and their influences marks practically all the fields of contemporary creation. Festivals, concerts, discs and media: as many relays which contribute to widen our musical horizons, to sensitize us with new esthetics. The migration of the musics goes hand in hand with that of course their interpreters. Musicians of street or stars of the world music, the migrant musicians make from now on started from our musical landscape. But they must find their place in the great concert of the nations, often pulled about between the requirements of their cultural heritage and the economic stakes of their new statute. Through a collective reflexion on the universalization of the musical practices, this work brings many new elements to the debate on the exchanges in progress and the stakes of cultural diversity. Musiques Migrantes Under the direction of Laurent Aubert Collection Tabou du Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève Editions InFolio/MEG 2005 11 €

__For fifty years, S. Diakonoff has traversed the world to constitute a collection of more than 900 masks and sculptures. Presented in this work for the first time, this collection is completely representative of which are Arts of Africa. Paradox of diversity and coherence, this book shows by the statuary and its art of the sculpture of the mask, which there is of private individual in African intellectual nature. The objects presented here miss sometimes completely atypical, quasi of the traditional iconography to which we are so well accustomed. L’Ame de l’Afrique .Masques et sculptures Serge Diakonoff Editions de l’amateur/ Georges Naef 48 €

__A very beautiful collection of masks joined together for this exposure which currently proceeds in the room of Guyancourt in Yvelines. A meeting also between several people impassioned by the expressivity of tribaux Arts. That gives a beautiful idea of what one feels when this catalogue is opened. These glances in hollows, which seem come from the bottom of the ages to scan us the bottom of the heart with an almost palpable emotional intensity, not nothing to envy their correspondents resulting from other continents. I believe that that is not used for nothing to try to describe this feeling which holds me the hand in front of this variety of expressions which emanate from these wood cut. I believe that best is still to go to the exposure and to be done oneself its own glance. To buy this catalogue to keep a trace of this culture still little known and already dedicated to an unquestionable and nearest disappearance, considering the speed that the man with to saw the branch on which it sat. Enigmes des montagnes, masques tribaux de l'himalaya Catalogue de l'exposition organisée par F. Pannier autours de la collection de Gustavo Gili et Rosa Amoros.

__The intêret of this book not being in the photographs of the reproduced sculptures of multiple times for their ethnological and aesthetic values in many works, but in the analysis that realizes L.Richard in order to show in which circumstances, how and at which ends the objects create in these old companies stripped of writings, were taken into account by the Westerners. The originality of this work is to have firmly based itself on the history and the ethnology in order to bring a new lighting on a studied topic of many times. Arts Premiers, l'évolution du regard Lionel Richard Edition du Chêne 59.90 €

__ This collection accumulated during these twenty last years shows a large variety of styles. A choice of collection which has to lead their authors to leave dessentiers beaten the African classissism. Each object is accompanied by a text and the majority as of the these objects remained so far news. Une passion pour l'Art Africain Edition joèl Cuenot 50 €

	__ Edition of the book published for the first time in 1925 and never yet translated into French. This doctor specialized in psychiatry which traversed the South Seas épris of the Marquesas Islands at such point that in the space of a few months (1897/février1898 August), while learning the language, a sum of research, collection of objects and réçits realized which to date remains a reference for all those which are intérressent with the ornamentation of the Océaniennes islands. In the origin, three volumes were published. Les Marquisiens et leur Art. L'ornementation primitive des Mers du sud. Vol I : Tatouage, Vol II : Plastique. Karl von Den Steinen Edition du Musée de tahiti et des Iles Te Fane Iamanaha 45 €

__This book places at our disposal the exeptionnelle collection of Blaupain which selected its objects for their great plastic value without forgetting the ethnological aspect in its research. These masks, sculptors and objects of the everyday life enable us to make a vast review of what Africa offers to us of better in its arts. Many photographs for objects little, to see almost ever shown. Rêves de beauté B. de Grunne 5 Continents edition 40 €

	Illustrated Abondemment, this catalog of the exhibition which is held until January 15th, 2006, proposes us a beautiful panorama of what the Art of the peoples of iles the Marquesas Islands in known how to engender when it was about ornamentation. Everything the processes and the supports are describe and as possible, their meanings explained thanks to the legends there which accompany the myths which we find in the traditional songs, among others. A beautiful catalog for those who cannot see the exhibition. Adorning the World, Art of the Marquesas Islands The Metropolitan Museum of Art 24 €

Téké developed, there is hardly for a long time, a civilization which is one of the most former of the Congolese pond, carried by a very language very ancient. Of all the realms which marked the history of Black Africa, the téké realm lives certainly one of the most alive in the memory of the peoples, by its geographic situation in the heart of central Africa, but also by its area and the power of his kings. This work is a summary of information about this civilization, its history, its culture, its traditions and its faiths. LE ROYAUME TÉKÉ Eugénie Mouayani Opou ed de L'Harmattan, 156 pages 14,5 €

This general study is the result of several inquiries led on the ground between 1941 and 1951. As a result of the scattering of Songhay between the territories of Sudan, Niger, Haute-Volta, the Dahomey and British Nigeria, no work of synthesis still exists on this grouping of more than a half-million inhabitants and whose cultural influence exceeds widely the North of the buckle of Niger. This work establishes a synthesis on this grouping. (Republication) LES SONGHAY Jean Rouch ed de L'Harmattan, 100 pages 14 €

This catalog is that there is a beautiful exhibition organized by Maine Durieu in its gallery of 57 quay of big Augustine. Rare is dealing goods Gan, people likened to Lobi, living in the Southwest of the Burkina Faso, even rarer are the exhibitions which are dedicated to them. It is henceforth made thing and this exhibition, the magnificent reflection of which deliver is, is for the measure of the passion that fed Mr Durieu for these "small" objects. That tell furthermore otherwise to go to get you this catalog where the small objects stand out splendidly increased and where the text of B. Goy teaches us much more on peaceful people for such a long time to stay in the shadow of his neighbours les Lobi. Bronzes Gan, la spirale du serpent Textes de Bertrand Goy Edition Sepia 35 €