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Author Price, Sally, author

Title Paris primitive : Jacques Chirac's museum on the Quai Branly / Sally Price
Published Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2007
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
©2007

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Description x, 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents Jacques and Jacques -- Museums in the City of Light -- The Move to the Louvre -- The Organ Donors -- An Anti-Palace on the Seine -- Epilogue: Cultures in Dialogue? -- Back Matter
Summary 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 Musée 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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-239)
Subject Bedford, Paddy -- Exhibitions.
Chirac, Jacques, 1932- -- Art patronage.
Mawurndjul, John, 1952?- -- Exhibitions.
Napurrula, Ningura, approximately 1938-2013
Nyadbi, Lena, approximately 1936-
Riley, Michael, 1960-2004 -- Exhibitions.
Watson, Judy, 1959-
Watson, Yannima Tommy, approximately 1935-
Yunupingu, Gulumbu, 1945-2012
Musée du quai Branly.
Musée du quai Branly -- History.
Art, Primitive -- Appreciation.
Ethnic art -- Exhibitions.
Ethnological museums and collections -- France -- Paris -- History.
Ethnological museums and collections -- France -- Paris.
Ethnological museums and collections.
Ethnology -- France -- History.
Ethnology -- France.
Museums -- France.
Sculpture, Primitive -- Exhibitions.
SUBJECT France -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051500
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Musée du quai Branly.
LC no. 2007011572
ISBN 0226680681
0226680703
9780226680682
9780226680705
Other Titles Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly