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Nigerian Arts Revisited
The Barbier-Mueller Museum invited the anthropologist Nigel Barley, a former curator at the British Museum, to take a look at the museum's Nigerian collection, which came into being over more than a hundred years, thanks to the personal and informed "eye" of the collectors Josef Mueller and Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller. Without aspiring to cover exhaustively the cultural production of Nigeria across the two millennia of its history, the Barbier-Mueller collection is very rich in several respects. Faithful to chronological continuity, it provides a sample of the production of the major cultural centers of Nigeria, shedding light on archaeological pieces from Nok, Katsina, and Sokoto, works from ...
The Western Karo Batak's Lost Creation Myth
In The Western Karo Batak's Lost Creation Myth Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller explains how the westerm Karo Batak of northern Sumatra once viewed the cosmos as divided into three worlds – Upper, Middle and Lower.This is a joint publication of the Fondation Musée Barbier-Mueller (Geneva) and Brill.
A Guide to Pre-Columbian Art
This guide provides a closer view of the pre-Hispanic world, analysing the origins and decline of the greatest ancient American civilisations.
Shields
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, 10 September - 28 November 1998, and then touring Europe.
Art of Côte D'Ivoire
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Messages in Stone
Numerose sono le isole dell'Insulindia che vantano colossali monumenti e statue di pietra tali da gareggiare con i giganti dell'isola di Pasqua; nonostante ciò queste affascinanti manifestazioni artistiche sono state finora oggetto solo di studi specialistici, rimanendo in gran parte sconosciute al grande pubblico. Il volume, che comprende i saggi di Alan Viaro, Arlette Ziegler, Jean Paul Barbier e Janet Hoskins, analizza le diverse tipologie, significati e funzioni di queste suggestive sculture monumentali attraverso una selezione di cinquanta esemplari delle straordinarie collezioni del Museo Barbier-Mueller. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
