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Paris primitive : Jacques Chirac's museum on the Quai Branly

Author: Sally Price
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Price, Sally.
Paris primitive.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007
(OCoLC)608319751
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sally Price
ISBN: 9780226680682 0226680681 9780226680705 0226680703
OCLC Number: 122309104
Description: x, 239 p. : ill., 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? --
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Recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris' museum world that resulted from Jacques Chirac's dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of  Read more...

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