Paris Primitive Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly

Name: Paris Primitive Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly
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ISBN: 9780226680705

ISBN-10: 0226680703

ISBN-13: 9780226680705

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sally Price

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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 theMona 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 Primitiverecounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris’s museum world that resulted from Chirac’s dream, set against a…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Sally Priceis the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. She is the author or coauthor of more than fifteen books, includingPrimitive Art in Civilized Places, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



Opening Notes


Where to Begin


Jacques And Jacques


The Primal Moment


The President's Secret Garden


The Passionate Connoisseur


Good-bye, Columbus


Museums In The City Of Light


The State of Culture


The Grandest Museum in the World


The Move To The Louvre


Down with Hierarchy


Getting Started


Cohabitation


In-House Rumblings


A Dream Come True


Artifactual Question Marks


The Organ Donors


Trouble at the Trocadï¿½ro


Resistance Movement


Colonies and Crocodiles


Musical Chairs


An Anti-Palace On The Seine


The Turn to Concrete


Preparing the Transplants


Behind the Hairy Wall


Glass, Gardens, and Aborigines


A River Runs Through It


Art of Darkness


Epilogue: Cultures in Dialogue?


Back Matter


An American in Paris


Contributing Voices


Notes


Bibliography