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Arts of the South Seas
Drawing on the famous collections of the Musee Barbier-Mueller this unusual and beautifully illustrated book brings together these cultures to demonstrate the astonishing aesthetic similarities between civilizations located far apart in both space and time. While the arts of the Easter Islands and Maori civilizations have been well known for some years the creativity of the inhabitants of Borneo, Sulawei, and Sumatra is less familiar, and is scarcely represented in the major public collections. On the basis of the linguistic consonance between the thousand or more modern languages spoken in Oceania, anthropologists and archaeologists have begun to trace the cultural links throughout this are...
Ancient Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum
Covering various pieces of artwork from 7000 B.C. to A.D. 575, the author examines the development of materials and technology used, and looks at the role art has played in human society
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 ...
Gold of Africa
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Art of Côte D'Ivoire
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Icons in Gold
This elegant volume celebrates the tradition of Indian jewelry, featuring the gorgeous collection of Indian gold jewels in the Musee Barbie-Mueller.
Shields
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, 10 September - 28 November 1998, and then touring Europe.
