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Paris Primitive (Paperback, New)
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In 1990 Jacques Chirac, the future president of France and a
passionate fan of non-European art, met Jacques Kerchache, a
maverick art collector with the lifelong ambition of displaying
African sculpture in the holy temple of French culture, the Louvre.
Together they began laying plans, and ten years later African
fetishes were on view under the same roof as the "Mona Lisa," Then,
in 2006, amidst a maelstrom of controversy and hype, Chirac
presided over the opening of a new museum dedicated to primitive
art in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower: the Musee du Quai Branly.
"Paris Primitive" recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris's
museum world that resulted from Chirac's dream, set against a
backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and
the role of culture in French society. Along with exposing the
machinations that led to the MQB's creation, Sally Price addresses
the thorny questions it raises about the legacy of colonialism, the
balance between aesthetic judgments and ethnographic context, and
the role of institutions of art and culture in an increasingly
diverse France. Anyone with a stake in the myriad political,
cultural, and anthropological issues raised by the MQB will find
Price's account fascinating.
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