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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, amid 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 (MQB). "Paris Primitive" recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris' 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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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles Art styles not defined by date

• Full title: Paris Primitive
• Author: Sally Price
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780226680705
• ISBN: 0226680703
• ID: 02246664
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 368 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2007

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