by Morin, Wastiau
ISBN: 9782757202302
Terres Cuites Africaines, Collections Musée Barbier-Mueller, Un Héritage Millénaire (Book)
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African Terracotta: A Millennial Heritage, Barbier-Mueller Museum Collections / Terres Cuites Africaines : Un Héritage Millénaire, Collections du Musée Barbier-Mueller (Book) by Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller, Boris Wastiau. 2009, like new condition, 469 pages. Somogy Editions. Book in French.
Terracotta is not only synonymous with a container, a domestic object. It comes in an infinite number of forms, due to the docility of clay and the extraordinary fantasy of its creators. Imbued with sacredness, the receptacle disguises itself and takes on anthropomorphic features. Sometimes the clay takes on human form, disturbs us by imitating a face, and becomes a portrait.
The collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum present African terracotta in its multiple facets through cultures that have disappeared for millennia, but also traditions closely linked to pottery that persist today. This cultural heritage, whose symbolic force equals its beauty, offers both a historical and geographical journey of Africa, one and multiple.
This publication, rich in more than 200 works, was born from the collaboration of many specialists of the African continent. Magnificent old and current photographs punctuate this reference work.
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